Hiding your proxy server..

[Zbigniew Koziol]

OK, one more time I was a bit wrong. The reply from Taavi Burns was 
correct. The original message was in fact about spoofing of IP. I know 
that it is possible to do that but I do not know is it practicaly easy 
to do it in real life.

zb.

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> 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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