[Techtalk] How to write web proxy in Python?

[Meredydd Luff]

I've written a q&d web proxy you could use and modify if you're interested - 
a quick change to the read routine would do it nicely. Interested? It also 
supports user-configurable access control, system-password authentication, 
etc, but not hugely well - not that it seems to concern you much. Interested?

Meredydd

On Thursday 09 January 2003 20:53, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to write a very simple web proxy that should only do one thing:
> replace ^M's with ^J's in incoming pages.  (I think some broken Javascript
> with ^M's and no ^J's is preventing me from using my university's online
> classes via Opera :(
>
> I have heard that the fastest language to write a webserver in is Python.
> I figure the same would be true for a proxy.  I have Python on my box, but
> I don't know the language, and I've never done socket programming in any
> language.  I don't require the proxy to accept multiple clients - pages
> will display in one page of the browser, though it does have frames (does
> that make it look like multiple clients?).
>
> If doing this in Python is not as simple as, say, C, that's fine too.
> Just need a clue where to start.
>
> (If only I could just write "cat <HTTP input> | sed s/^M/^J/g |
> <browser>"...)
>
> Amanda
> Funny that I'm thinking of writing this in order to take a CMSC 101 class.
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