Closing an open http proxy

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:33:52PM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> I have a linksys router that passes port 80 requests to my server, which 
> is running apache (1.3.x), which in turn uses ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse 
> to hand off /foo requests to localhost:8081 which is running a webapp 
> called 'foo' using Tomcat.
> 
> This works just ducky.  Except I'm starting to get warnings saying that I 
> have an open http proxy.

What happens if you tell a browser to use your web server
(external address) as an HTTP proxy? Does it work for any site,
or just your own?

-dsr-

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