web proxy (I think)?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:33:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> 
>>is this called web proxying?  Or caching or redirecting or something?
>>anyway, that's what I want to do.  Also I would like to fool the local
>>machines into thinking that my ubuntu repository is in fact the one
>>that's pointed to in their apt-get ocnfiguration files.  
> 
> 
> No not really, I think it's called copying the contents of a stie to a
> local web server and making it respond to the request for the original
> hostname.

Apache can be configured (if used as a proxy (!)) to respond to request 
to microsoft.com by serving pages from a local copy of their web site.

Thats, btw, why ignorants enter credit cards numbers thinking that they 
do transactions with royalbank.com ;) In other words: never ever enter 
credit card when using proxy and not checking security sertificate ;)

zb

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