HoTTProxy

Open Source HTTP Proxy
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Brian Blakley
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.hottproxy.org/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 99 KB

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HoTTProxy Description

Open Source HTTP Proxy HoTTProxy is an open source and Perl based HTTP proxy targeted specifically toward serving the needs of wireless Internet devices (PDAs, cell phones, etc.).NOTE: HoTTProxy is free for non-commercial use. Requirements: · Perl What's New in This Release: · Started keeping notes about what changed in each version. · Removed the word "Alpha" from the version number. This is a cosmetic change only. Added web based Administration Console (HoTTProxy_Admin) to simplify administration. HoTTProxy_Admin provides its own HTTP daemon and listens on its own configurable port number (default is 8085). HoTTProxy_Admin accepts requests from localhost only and has no built in security. With the Administration Console you can do the following: · 1. Add users · 2. Delete users · 3. Edit users · 4. View cookies of any user · 5. View the HoTTProxy log · 6. Change basic HoTTProxy settings · Fixed a bug that would have caused passwords with a colon in them to fail to match (replaced "split" with a regex). · Added code to clean up user supplied username to eliminate any potential vulnerability that may have existed by not doing so. These characters are now not legal in a HoTTProxy username /:+*?"|&` the space character, and 0x00-0x21 (x00-x21 is a range of characters in hex notation). · Added HTTP_Proxy_Module_Logmask and HTTP_Proxy_Module_Logfile options to the configuration file to control logging by the underlying HTTP::Proxy module -- helpful for troubleshooting or debugging new code. See HoTTProxy.conf for more details. · Worked with the author of the HTTP::Proxy module to build support for unknown schemes into the standard distribution of the module. Based on these updates, we now can redirect the Alltel 'proxy:homepage' homepage setting (just as we do for Verizon's 'http://homepage'). Changed HoTTProxy to require version 0.16 or later of HTTP::Proxy (first version with the new code). · On Win32, changed the frontslash in the CookieDirectory setting to be a backslash. This is purely cosmetic, but was a source of confusion for some. · Added feature to detect and report (on the console) the private (local) and public IP address of the machine running HoTTProxy. · Added a check and warning at startup time if no .user or .password files are found. Since HoTTProxy is specifically programmed not to run "open" (without authentication), if there are no .user or .password files, then no user accounts have been created, and thus it is sort of pointless to run the program. · Added ability to set expiration dates for accounts. If the current date is equal to or greater than the expiration date for an account, the proxy will deny access to that user. · Added new type of user account file. The old .password account files still work, but the new type '.user' is the default. The only difference is that in the .user files, instead of the cleartext user password being the first line, the MD5 hash of the user's password is the first line. If you are using the new Administration Console, this is handled for you. If you are creating user accounts "by hand", you should probably continue to use the .password files with cleartext passwords to avoid error. · Added optional section to .user and .password files to store more details about the user. Has no effect on the proxy, but is displayed by the Administration Console and makes keeping track of lots of users easier. · Fixed cosmetic bug where multi-item .conf file elements would be reported as '(HASH....)' on console instead of showing the individual items. · Fixed bug where if a multi-item .conf file element was configured with only a single value, it would be put into memory not as a multi but as a regular element (which would cause the item to fail to have an effect). Now, any element whose name ends with 's' is forced to be a multi even if it only has one value (e.g. TrustedDomains, ValidLocalHosts). Now multi-item elements are denoted on the console with a '+' before the element name. · Fixed bug where if HoTTProxy was installed in a directory containing whitespace in the path, "globbing" of files would fail. Changed to bsd_glob instead of glob as it ignores whitespace. · Added ValidLocalHosts .conf file element which accepts a list of valid local host names. By "valid" we mean that there really is a host that is on the local network with the HoTTProxy by that name, or that the name will in some way resolve to a valid host, and we want to be able to access web resources on that device without HoTTProxy doing a redirect to the user's home page. · Added DisableLocalHostRedirection .conf file element. If set to "true" (greater than zero) redirection of requests for a local host (a.k.a. a ".local" domain) will *not* be redirected to the configured home page. Obviously if your phone then requests http://homepage, and this item is set, you should ensure that http://homepage resolves to some local or public resource via a hosts file mapping, etc. · Added ability to specify which (if any) .conf file elements should not appear on the HoTTProxy console by putting a minus sign ('-') before the element name. Changed default .conf file to hide elements that aren't important to troubleshooting, etc. · Changed the format of "Cookie" and "Set-Cookie" log entries (only present when LogDetail is turned on) to match other log entries. · All logging and time reporting is now in local time to the server instead of in GMT.


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