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.
<br><br><a href="http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/">http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Brandon<br><a href="http://Kiva.org">Kiva.org</a> - Make a small loan, Make a big difference
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brandon Poyner</b> <<a href="mailto:bpoyner@gmail.com">bpoyner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/28/07, Michael Semcheski <<a href="mailto:mhsemcheski@gmail.com">mhsemcheski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> So one thing to mention, this is for people who are a bit older and<br>> not technically inclined. There are some Mac users, and some PC
<br>> users.<br>><br>> Getting them to use PuTTY or SSH is actually a great way to do it, but<br>> I don't think they'll be able to handle it. Really, if they have to<br>> change the proxy settings on their browser then they're way over their
<br>> heads.<br><br>How about configuring a reverse proxy using Apache or your web server<br>of choice?<br><br><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html
</a><br><br>I admit I haven't tried this, but if it works it would be a<br>zero-configuration solution for the family.<br><br>--<br>Brandon<br><a href="http://Kiva.org">Kiva.org</a> - Make a small loan, Make a big difference
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