[prog] Re: [Techtalk] How to write web proxy in Python?

[Mary]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> My goal is for the proxy to be completely transparent except for fixing
> the bad Javascript the university is sending me.  It actually seems to
> me that using just the sockets would be easier since I can effectively
> just let my browser and the university talk to each other, stepping in
> only to fix ^M to ^J.  If I just plug sockets into each other, I don't
> even need to *know* the URL (just the hostname and port :)

For a proxy of the type you envisage, this is probably right.

Still... I'll justify my archived post on the basis that it may one day
be useful to people doing a bigger proxy assignment :)

-Mary