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LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
Atlanta, GA May 30, 2003

Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Proxies for Filtering > Fake a proxy server to prevent access to all but authorized sites

2. Fake Proxy Server

#1 is good, but the error message is vague and confusing.
Run a fake proxy server on a specific port on a UNIX box which simply displays an HTML page.
1. Create a HTTP-response-in-a-file (/usr/local/sorry.cat-html in this example):
```
HTTP/1.0 200 Ok
Content-type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Can't go there</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><P>Sorry -- you can't get there from this workstation.</P></BODY>
</HTML>
```
2. Add a line to your services file: fakeproxy 8080/tcp
3. Add a line to your inetd.conf file: fakeproxy stream tcp nowait httpusr /bin/cat cat /usr/local/sorry.cat-html ...and restart your inetd server with a HUP signal.