[Zope] ProxyRequests

[Garry Steedman]

hi,

i tend to agree: reading some of these HOWTOs, a naive user could 
happily configure apache as a public proxy and this is not good (it 
might not be disastrous, but at best you lose bandwidth to pron 
trawlers)!

how can this be rectified?

garry

On 13 Mar 2002, at 12:39, Stephan Goeldi wrote:

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Subject:        	[Zope] ProxyRequests
Date sent:      	Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:39:54

> There was a thread about ProxyRequests and the problem you get, if you
> enable them in httpd.conf (ProxyRequests On). In fact, a server can be
> used as a public Proxy server, if you enable this. I think, if this is
> really true, it is bad, that it is suggested in at least 2 Howto's on
> Zope.org:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/rbeer/caching
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Jace/apache-vhm
> 
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