RE: FC1 Proxy Servers

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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:46 -0400, Chalonec Roger wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Would you know if there is a gnome install
> utility?  I saw webmin but am leery of web front ends.  What do you
> think?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Kloiber
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: FC1 Proxy Servers
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:18 -0400, Chalonec Roger wrote:
> > Well I was not sure if these two nomenclature names were actually 
> > proxy servers.  Are there relative advantages and disadvantages 
> > between the two other than anti-virus?
> 
> Squid is a 'real' proxy server, where Privoxy is an 'objectionable
> material' blocker, and something of an anonymizer that happens to sit
> between you and the internet like a proxy server, but to my knowledge it
> does not cache content for future delivery. It blocks images of certain
> sizes commonly used as advertisements, and can filter urls for words and
> phrases. Probably stops some pop-over and pop-under ads, too. They could
> have added something since I last looked, but I don't think privoxy was
> ever designed to block viruses, so I would not count on it doing that.

(please don't top-post)

IIRC, privoxy has a web front-end of it's own to configure it. Squid
does not, but you can enable basic squid functionality for your local
network by adding 2 lines to the /etc/squid/squid.conf, so it's not hard
at all.

-- 
Chris Kloiber




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