[wplug] Proxy Question

[Brandon Poyner]

I asked a friend what he does for his family overseas.  He pointed me at
this, which does support http and https for the backend (target) website but
he says it's "not too hot with ajax".  I didn't play with it too much but
amazon appears to work.

http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

-- 
Brandon
Kiva.org - Make a small loan, Make a big difference

On 8/28/07, Brandon Poyner <bpoyner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/28/07, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So one thing to mention, this is for people who are a bit older and
> > not technically inclined.  There are some Mac users, and some PC
> > users.
> >
> > Getting them to use PuTTY or SSH is actually a great way to do it, but
> > I don't think they'll be able to handle it.  Really, if they have to
> > change the proxy settings on their browser then they're way over their
> > heads.
>
> How about configuring a reverse proxy using Apache or your web server
> of choice?
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html
>
> I admit I haven't tried this, but if it works it would be a
> zero-configuration solution for the family.
>
> --
> Brandon
> Kiva.org - Make a small loan, Make a big difference
>
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