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Special Forums Cybersecurity Proxies (Best?) Post 88405 by deckard on Thursday 3rd of November 2005 04:45:25 PM

11-03-2005

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Proxies (Best?)

I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, would an administrator please move it? Thanks.

I've got a situation where we are using iPlanet proxy server to allow some of our web browsers to ONLY go to certain sites on an "approved" list. If they try to go to sites that aren't on the list, they get a message stating that they are at a limited workstation. This would be great overall if the iPlanet proxy (running on Win2K) wasn't so flakey. The performance seems poor because our clients complain about pages not loading completely or at all at times. I've been looking at Freshmeat.net for a decent open source/free software replacement. But there are quite a few proxies and they all seem to have different focuses.

What I need is just an HTTP proxy that will allow me to maintain a list of approved sites. Ideally, it should have a web interface for managing the approved sites since I'm not really the maintainer, a non-technical person is. And finally, the list should work with regular expressions so that wildcards can be used to allow people access to subparts of the approved sites. If possible, we really DON'T want stuff caching on disk because we can't afford to be legally viewed as a "content provider". Since the definition of that is pretty nebulous it makes the non-caching feature pretty important. Anyone know of anything like that?

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samidare

SAMIDARE(1)							   User Commands						       SAMIDARE(1)

NAME

       samidare - web page update checker

SYNOPSIS

       samidare [OPTION]...  [URL]...

DESCRIPTION

       Samidare  checks  web  page  updates.  It takes a list of URLs in a configuration file, config.yml, and checks last update time of them.  A
       HTML file, latest.html, is generated to show the updates.

OPTIONS

       --help show help message.

       -v, --verbose
	      specify verbose mode.

       -n, --no-check
	      don't check web.	output generation only.

       -f, --force
	      force check (avoid timing control mechanism)

       -o, --output=filename
	      specify output html filename.

       --output-lirs=filename
	      specify output lirs filename.

       -T, --template=filename
	      specify template filename.

       -t, --timing
	      show check time of pages.

       --dump-config
	      dump flatten configuration.

       --dump-status
	      dump status.  If URLs is specified, the status of specified pages are shown.

       --dump-template-data
	      dump data for expand template.  The "data" variable in template file refer this.

       --dump-filenames
	      dumps locally stored filenames of pages specified by URLs.

       --dump-filenames2
	      dumps locally stored recent two filenames of pages specified by URLs.

       --remove-entry
	      remove entry of pages specified by URLs.

       --diff-content
	      show difference of recent two files of specified URLs.

USAGE

       samidare is configured by "config.yml" and "t.latest.html" by default.

       samidare generates "latest.html" and "sites.lirs.gz"

       samidare uses "status.rm" and "tmp" to record status of pages.

       "config.yml" is a configuration file in YAML format.  See EXAMPLES section for its content.

       "t.latest.html" is a template file.  In the file, "data" variable can be used.  See the document of htree library for template directives.

       So you can run samidare as follows.

	 % cd $HOME
	 % mkdir samidare
	 % cd samidare
	 % vi config.yml
	 % vi t.latest.html	       # optional
	 % samidare
	 % w3m latest.html	       # view the result

       If you want to publish the result, use symbolic link to latest.html and sites.lirs.gz as follows.

	 % mkdir public_html
	 % mkdir public_html/samidare
	 % cd public_html/samidare
	 % ln -s ../../samidare/latest.html .
	 % ln -s ../../samidare/sites.lirs.gz .

EXAMPLES

       The configuration file is described in YAML format.

       The simplest configuration is list of URLs as follows.

	 - http://www.example.org/blog/
	 - http://www.example.net/

FILES

       "config.yml" and "t.latest.html" is configuration file.

       "latest.html" and "sites.lirs.gz" is output.

       "status.rm" and "tmp" is used by samidare internally.

SECURITY

       samidare stores pages in tmp directory.	If it is published via your web server, XSS (cross site scripting) is possible.  So the  directory
       should not be published.

AUTHOR

       Tanaka Akira

SEE ALSO

       htree

samidare 0.7							     July 2008							       SAMIDARE(1)