[plug] Slightly OT? cascading proxies

[Steve Grasso]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Denis Brown wrote:
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> Another thought which has been triggered by all the above is this: can I 
> implement a CGI/Perl/PhP/whatever script to run on an Apache server to 
> effectively do IPMasq'ing?  In other words, client on remote (unfriendly) 
> subnet points browser to the Apache box.  Apache box (my Linux box) serves 
> him a page requesting the url of interest on the local (friendly) 
> subnet.  Apache box sends the request to the server for the required 
> resource, apparently from a "friendly" user -- in other words, a form of 
> masquerading.  Replies to the Apache box then get sent back to the original 
> requestor.  Possible, or have I been drinking too much coffee / having too 
> many late nights??

You could take a look at CGI-proxy, a perl script which pretty much does as
you want. I've used it successfully in the past.:

 http://www.jmarshall.com/

Steve