FTP/Gopher pages w/ multiple proxies

Michael S. Muegel (mmuegel@cssun6.corp.mot.com)
Mon, 19 Sep 1994 18:02:53 +0200

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 18:02:53 +0200
Message-Id: <199409191552.AA24595@cssun6.corp.mot.com>
From: "Michael S. Muegel" <mmuegel@cssun6.corp.mot.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: FTP/Gopher pages w/ multiple proxies

We run two proxy servers: an internal one the users interact with and
an external one which actually connects to internet hosts. A pretty
simple setup that look like:

Internal WAN <-> wwwgate0 <-> wwwgate1 <-> Internet

Unfortunately, I have had to turn directory icons off via the DirShowIcons
directive. The icons generated by the server where, naturally, of
the form http://wwwgate1.mot.com/.../. Our users do not have a route
to wwwgate1 and this is therefore a problem.

As the address is a mot.com address client systems will try to
connect to the server directly and not go through the proxy because
of the setup of no_proxy. So using a Map directive on wwwgate0
will not fix things either.

Without hacking the code is there a way to change the path to the
icons? Am I missing some magic directive that actually modifies
URLs *within* fetched documents? What about a directive that
changes the URL to the icons?

Thanks,
-Mike

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