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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.