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I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.

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By Proxy

Seeing as (a) my head is all over the place today, unable to focus on a task for more than fifteen seconds without swimming off into a daydream involving the words "eighteen days", and (b) an administrative cock-up has left me without my external server today (meep), I thought I'd ask an incredibly boring and technical question of you — my Wonderfully Knowledgeable Genius Friends From The Internets™

My super-duper big fat new server (that is upstairs in a cupboard) live behind the University's firewall and proxy servers. I'm still waiting for the Nod From On High™ for to open up port 80 and let the world see the goodies I've been working on for the past three months, but in the meantime I'm having problems getting the site to work with other APIs.

I want, for example, obviously, to be able to do yummy things with Flickr — like syncing accounts and stuff if the students want. I also (and this is what I'm particularly interested in today) want to be able to hook up an internal calendar/timetable system with a few Google Calendar accounts that I set up the other day.

But

Dammit, I can't get PHP to work with a proxy.

I've (natch) set the proxy settings in the System Preferences, and I've (also natch) Googled the hell out of the interweb trying to find out if there's some kind of configuration step to sort all this out.

But I can't find anything :unsure:

So, does anyone know how to get Apache/PHP working properly both ways via a Squid proxy?

Pretty please?

Stealings

*mwah ha har*

I know a good home for some of them... when ARE you coming over for a coffee!

Eloise

The problem with this stuff is you get p

Keep at least one of those boxes in years to come, young relatives will be amazed at the size and antiquated designs!

My mum keeps her Christmas decorations in the box that Winchester disks were packed in. Plenty of room for everything a well dressed tree needs and more!

Jane

I've not actually heard of anyone doing what you want with Squid.

(Stupid question: did you check the o'Reilly?)

I know trying to get API's to work when the port status isn't "good" can be problematic; maybe it'll all come to fruition when you get 80 opened to the world?

Another silly question: After thinking about this, I can't help but wonder if it's not a network architecture and security issue? After all, most net admins do not want port 80 open on the "wrong" side of the firewall — that's why they employ things like Squid in the first place.

Not to sound pompous, although this undoubtedly will, if I ran a network, there's no way in hell that I'd let anyway operate a publicly-available web-server from behind the firewall. As strange as it might seem, the DoD might even have a say in that!

Maybe you need to think about a Web 2.0 approach?

Sorry I can't be more helpful. I don't know the architecture (nor do I really want to — no decent netadmin tells all and sundry about that stuff!), and as a result, I'm unable to offer a "solution", potential or otherwise. The security problems might be the preventer of all that is good with your ideas. Sorry. :sad: