You know, there are public proxy servers: http://www.publicproxyservers.com/p... Which you can set your internet browser to point to one of the ip addresses in the list, then you will be browsing not your internet, but the ip's internet through your internet! Now, I am planning to create my own HTTP proxy server through port 8080. I have a server connected directly to the internet (static ip), no router, no firewall, NOTHING. Now, how do I set up a proxy server, where whenever I point my internet browser proxy settings to my IP, it is surfing theweb through that ip address? Anyone know any software which can let me do this? Can Windows Server 2003 do it itself? if so, how do I configure, what steps do I need to take? Kute Punk Kay Pee Kay Tee Pren Tiss Kute Punk Kay Pee Kay Tee Pren Tiss

I have a server connected directly to the internet (static ip), no router, no firewall, NOTHING. You do realize just how safe and insecure this is don't you? You're just begging to get hacked by not running a firewall. In todays world on the internet it's very important to firewall your LAN from external access. If this is a web server you want to have available externally, harden it and only open port 80 for http. Better to be safe than sorry. Now, how do I set up a proxy server, where whenever I point my internet browser proxy settings to my IP, it is surfing theweb through that ip address? Those types of proxy's work because they're on the other side of your provider. Giving you a path like this: you >> ISP >> Proxy >> internet You couldn't put one between you and your ISP and still get out onto the internet. If you could put one on your server (ie: between you and your ISP), you would in effect be going out to your ISP, then back to your proxy and then of course because you only have a single path to the internet, back through your ISP to the internet again. It would look like this: you >> ISP >> your proxy on your server >> ISP >> internet Which means people would still be able to trace you to your ISP. I have to wonder is why would you want to go to the trouble anyhow when there already so many available as you pointed out with your link? Just use one of the existing online proxy servers.

Curt offers some great points to beware of, but keep in mind many security tools work by implementing their own proxy. It's really no different. Squid is the proxy of choice especially for apache, but I'm not sure if you could get it for windows. Google will probably show you many $ packages that you can choose from. J. j e r u v y a t y a h o o d o t c o m