This is a caching HTTP-proxy, which is useful for firewall sites. It's also useful as a site-wide cache, for faster "surfing" on the Internet.

Variables

Location
The location of the proxy in the virtual filesystem. If set to any other value than the default (http:/), all WWW clients will fall using it as a proxy.

One special case is /http:/, if you set this location, a link formed like this: <a href="/http:/localwww/foo">mywwwserver</a> will enable accesses to local WWW-servers through a firewall.

Logfile
This is the filename of the log to be used for proxy-accesses. If left empty, no logging will take place.

Remote proxy regular expressions
Here you can add redirects to remote proxy servers. If a file is requested from a host matching one of the patterns, the proxy will query the proxy server at the host and port specified. Hopefully, that proxy will then connect to the remote computer.

Example:

# All hosts inside *.rydnet.lysator.liu.se has to be
# accessed through lysator.liu.se
.*\.rydnet\.lysator\.liu\.se        130.236.253.11        80