On Saturday 13 November 2004 13:51, Zeus Odin wrote: > I would like to create a site that does nothing but forward requests to a > destination site, say mydest.com. This is for nothing illicit, I am simply > trying to circumvent a firewall's list of banned sites. > > :-) > > For instance, if I were to go to http://www.mysite.com, it would send a > request to GET http://www.mydest.com, download to mysite.com all text and > images to display a copy of mydest.com, then return to the client an image > of the mydest.com page from mysite.com. Everything must appear to come from > mysite.com.
Hi Zeus, > I imagine I might use LWP::UserAgent for GETting, POSTing, and mirroring; > and HTML::Parser, HTML::SimpleLinkExtor, or HTML::LinkExtor for processing > links. I know nothing about CGI, mod_perl, or Apache but am willing to > learn. I am probably forgetting to mention security, encryption, caching, > and cookies. I usually use Window$ XP but also have RedHat 9 installed. I guess LWP::UserAgent might be interesting in this context, but I wouldn't try to parse the responses you get. Why don't you pass the resulting code through only? Something like (not tested, pseudo code only): #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; use LWP::UserAgent; # let's say your script is called like this: # http://mysite.com/relay.pl?url=http://www.disney.com my $query = new CGI(); my $url_to_visit = $query->param('url'); my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(); # you should use something more general than "GET" here...don't know the # syntax OTTOMH my $response = $ua -> get($url_to_visit); print $response; > First, are there any modules that already do this? Why reinvent the box? > ("Reinvent the wheel" is so trite.) Second, any pointers would be helpful. > Of course, I have espoused that perl.beginners is a self-help group; > therefore, I am not expecting any lines of code whatsoever. Just looking > for advice, pointers, suggestions, caveats, watch-out-fors and general > information. Should be a fun exercise! I'm not sure, but this sounds more or less like something I read in the documentation of mod_proxy - maybe you want to take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html Without having thought about it too much, there might be some security-related concerns you might want to think about - if you implement something like this accessible to the public, you allow everybody to visit web pages in a way that it looks like you/your server did it. What if somebody uses your "relay" server to download MP3s illegally? Just my 5 cent, Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
