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Subject: Re: CERN-httpd as a http proxy
From: Jim Barry <Jim . Barry @ ilp . com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 95 21:55:00 BST
To: "'Firewalls Mailing List'" <Firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
Cc: "'Peter Musca'" <peter @ perth . wgc . com . au>
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Hi,

> From: Peter Musca <peter @
 perth .
 wgc .
 com .
 au>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:46:40 +0800 (WST)
> Subject: CERN-httpd as a http proxy.

>I am about to replace the http- proxy from the fwtk with the cern-httpd
>proxy. I want to run it in a chrooted environment and would appreciate any
>tips, advice etc from anyone who has done this. I am not sure whether I
>will be building a full blown WWW server as yet, but that may come in the
>future..

I use cern-httpd in preference to http-gw mainly because it gives more 
meaningful error messages back to the client. I don't understand your desire 
to run the proxy as chroot, as (by definition) it will only be forwarding 
requests to other locations.

I actually run two cern-httpd daemons - one as a 'regular' WWW server and 
one as a proxy. They coexist peacefully on the one machine.

Cheers,
 --Jim


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