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Proxy Server workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theresa Trawick)
Mon Apr 9 20:18:18 2001
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:51:01 -0500
From: Theresa Trawick <ttrawick@APLS.STATE.AL.US>
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New York, Ohio and Illinois and now in the Southeast -- LITA is
finally bringing its Proxy Web Server and Authentication
Regional Institute to Alabama. !!
Just a reminder that the deadline for registration for the LITA /
SOLINET workshop is today. Thirteen people have registered but
10 more are needed to make the workshop a "go."
Outline of Presentation:
What are proxies?
Traditional reasons to use caching proxies
Library Scenarios
Definitions
In the beginning...
Roles
Proxies
Authentication/Authorization
Proxies for Bandwidth Conservation
Set up proxy server
Client configuration
Demonstration
How Proxies Work
Networking overview
Overview of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols
Cache headers
Cache control
Local PC Setup
Manual Configuration
Proxy Auto-Configuration Files
Automatic Detection
Proxies for Statistics
Set up proxy server
Statistics programs
Demonstration
Privacy Statements
What is collected?
Sensitivity of information
Forming a privacy statement
Use of logs to identify problems and service abuses
Proxies for Filtering
Fake a proxy server to prevent access to all but authorized
sites
Gaming / Web-based E-mail, Chat / etc.
Setting up Apache to block requests to certain sites
Other forms of filtering
Authentication systems
How web clients authenticate to servers
Sources for authentication
Proxies for Remote Resource Access
Basic Theory
Is this a "reverse proxy"?
Authentication step
Transparent versus non-transparent proxy servers
EZproxy Demonstration
Alternatives to Proxy Servers for remote resource access
Free Proxy Servers
Apache
Squid
Delegate
Commercial Proxy Servers
Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0
Netscape Proxy Server
WinProxy
EZproxy
Obvia
WebManager from Sagebrush Corp (Winnebago)
Remote Patron Authentication from epixtech (Ameritech)
Web Access Management (WAM) from Innovative Interfaces
Future Developments
Interception Proxies
More about bandwidth conservation: Chaining proxies together
Resources
Lists of Links
Specific Documents
User Documentation
Free Proxy Servers
Commercial Proxy Servers
In cooperation with SOLINET, the Institute will be in Birmingham,
Alabama at the Birmingham Public Library,
April 20, 2001 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (registration opens at 8:30a.m.)
For more info about the workshop, costs and registration info, go to
http://www.lita.org/institut/solinet01/main.html.
Theresa C. Trawick, Technology Consultant
Alabama Public Library Service
6030 Monticello Drive
Montgomery, Alabama 36130
334-213-3900
800/723-8459, 979 Fax: 334/213-3993
ttrawick@apls.state.al.us
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Tomorrow is a new day;
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