Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:12:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Jeff Koftinoff <jeffkoftinoff@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Message-ID: <20020304221203.Q87533@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <EB4A5D95-2FFC-11D6-A2D9-003065709198@mac.com>; from jeffkoftinoff@mac.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:50:37PM -0800 References: <20020304213713.N87533@blossom.cjclark.org> <EB4A5D95-2FFC-11D6-A2D9-003065709198@mac.com>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:50:37PM -0800, Jeff Koftinoff wrote:
>
> On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:37 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:13:22PM -0800, Jeff Koftinoff wrote:
> >> All I want
> >> is for all web accesses done by programs on the local machine to be
> >> redirected to the transparent proxy on the local machine. Only one
> >> machine would be involved. Or should I be looking into 'divert'
> >> sockets? Where would I learn more about those?
> >
> > Nope. 'fwd' is the right way to go for transparent proxying. But a
> > webserver running on the same machine with the proxy won't work.
> >
>
> Thank you very much for your reply. So is 'fwd'' the right way to go
> for transparent proxying with the web browser and the proxy on the same
> machine?
I'm not sure why one would want to proxy connections to a webserver on
the same machine.
> With the same rule that I previously specified, when I try to
> access a remote web site, the 'fwd' rule blocks my connection and does
> not forward to 127.0.0.1:9999. The browser (links) just hangs on 'Making
> connection'. and 'ipfw show' shows the counter increase.
Hmmm... I thought you said it was working. I'm not clear on what is
and is not working.
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