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Does a transparent proxy normally run on the localhost? You could install the transparent proxy on the machine that connects your network to the internet, only listening on the intranet NIC (perhaps onlyport 80).

It is transparent in the way that nothing needs to be reconfigured on the client side.

I assume it is not so hard to make a transparent proxy this way.
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Re: Re: Transparent Network Proxy on Win32?
by McD (Chaplain) on Jul 31, 2002 at 12:38 UTC
    Japp writes:

    > Does a transparent proxy normally run on the localhost?

    Maybe not normally, but that doesn't mean it can't.

    > You could install the transparent proxy on the machine that connects your network to the internet,

    Sorry, assume I only have access to the client's host (localhost) - I probably should have mentioned that.

    > only listening on the intranet NIC (perhaps onlyport 80).

    Hee hee. For the record, I'm not proxying HTTP. Port 110 - not that it matters. :-)

    Peace,
    -McD

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