Displaying posts tagged: webcache

My rant about the university webcache

2010-07-23 11:58:01 No Comments
I wrote this a while ago and posted it on the Get rid of the university webcache! Facebook group. I've just been reminded of it and thought I'll post it here: Get rid of the university webcache! As many of you know to access any website on the Internet from campus you must configure your browser ...

Redirect local traffic to a web cache with iptables

2010-01-26 21:43:55 No Comments
Very occasionally I come across an Linux application that does not respect the http_proxy variable. This stops me from using the application at university as they forbid traffic on port 80 unless it goes via their webcache. So today I came up with a hack of a solution that involves iptables: # IP address and port ...