Hiding your proxy server..

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:33:34PM +0800, JM wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>	Is it possible to hide your proxy server?  What I mean if someone access a 
>>site using my proxy the server who owns the site will log my proxy IP as a 
>>client, or is it possible to show a diffrent non-existent IP?
> 
> 
> In order to get any informtaion back from the webserver, the proxy server
> must supply its own IP address.

Apache proxy server is easiely configurable. It does send its own IP, 
not IP of the user. I used apache running at home to access certain 
discussion forums when I was at work, to avoid leaving there IP address 
from my work and possible problems because of that.

The question itself is a bit naive. Of course, it is possible to have a 
proxy server that would do anything. A simplest one would just forward 
request and send it back, changing any header information, and could be 
written relatively easy in Perl. It is possible that such a perl proxy 
server does exist already.

In some sense, sending e-mail message from a web page by filling the 
form is like using a proxy server. In this case an HTTP request is 
converted to SMTP one.

zb.

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