Just an idea from a guy who really knows next to nothing about proxies :
If
- a proxy configuration allows you to selectively forward some requests
to a selection of sites, but not to a local file
- but what you want to do is to redirect some URLs to a local file
then can you not set up a local virtual host under some name, and
forward ditto "local" requests to that local virtual host, whose
pleasure it would be to serve the local stuff in question ?
André
Tavian Barnes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:48:54 -0600
"Tavian Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But that's a reverse proxy, not a forward one. I'm attempting to use
an Apache server as a proxy for my web browser, that uses a local copy
of certain files from certain sites. As such, it has to be a forward
proxy, because I'm using it for arbitrary web sites.
That's not what you originally asked.
It's what I attempted to ask, by referring to "forward proxies" in the
subject line.
Anyway, three solutions, from the most sensible
to the least:
* Set up proxy exceptions in your browser preferences
I know of nothing that can direct particular web addresses to local
copies of files; all the tools I've seen can just selectively proxy
addresses.
* Use mod_cache for your local copies
My local copies are intended to differ from the copies on the web.
Can mod_cache or mod_file_cache really be set to use a particular
local version of a file, rather than automatically generating the
cache? I realise that I didn't clarify this earlier.
* Use mod_rewrite - probably a rewritemap.
Is there any reason I'd need to use a rewrite map? Reading through
the mod_rewrite documentation, I came up with this,
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.google\.com
RewriteRule ^/ig /ig [R]
which unfortunately doesn't work. What am I missing?
Unless of course your real purpose is to block crap like
animated images, in which case maybe the rewritemap makes
good sense (I use my ADSL router to do that).
--
Nick Kew
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