This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
WWW proxy hack
Article: 7942 of alt.hackers From: Steve Shipway <steve@imperial.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: WWW proxy hack Date: 2 Jun 1995 15:40:11 +0100 Organization: Imperial Business Systems Lines: 20 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Approved: myself Message-ID: D9JtCH.DJy@imperial.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk X-Posting-Host: imperial.demon.co.uk Status: RO
Well, since noone here seems to be able to appreciate this, I thought I'd tell you lot. Our internal network (192.1.1.*) is linked to the internet via a UNIX host on a SLIP line. This means we can telnet, ftp etc from PCs to the UNIX host, and from the UNIX host to the world, but not from PCs to the world (we only have one IP address, not a class C). Since the UNIX box doesnt have X, no WWW. So, in the space of 2 hours, I wrote a proxy http server for the UNIX box that relays request from the internal net out. It *did* take a further hour to find the last bug, but now it works fine. Anyone want a copy? Email me. -Steve -- Steve Shipway steve@imperial.co.uk Voice: +44 117 925 1700 Imperial Business Systems, 54-56 Park St, Bristol, UK Fax : +44 117 925 2515 The opinions expressed in this message are not | Woe unto them that rise up necessarily those of Imperial Business Systems | early in the morning -Isaiah 5