LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
San Antonio, TX February 22, 2001
Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Free Proxy Servers > Apache
Proxy Characteristics
- Bandwidth Conservation
- Yes.
- Statistics
- Yes.
- Filtering
- Yes, but limited to hosts/ip-addresses. (See ProxyBlock in documentation.)
- Apache's mod_proxy module is extendable with mod_perl to modify the outgoing request (for example, stripping off headers in order to create an anonymizing proxy) or to modify the returned page.
- Remote Resource Access
- Yes. Authentication via flat-file and UNIX database files.
- Authorization extendable using Apache APIs.