Closing an open http proxy

[Duane Morin]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> 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?

Neither, actually.  If I try my server's port 80 as a proxy I just get "do 
not have permission" for everything, including my own server.  If I try 
something like 8080 (which is where Tomcat lives, but should not be open 
to the outside world) I just get a long hang, not an outright failure to 
connect.

Duane
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