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Bug 205161

Summary:	HTTP proxy server for vservers
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Onno van der Straaten <onno.van.der.straaten>
Component:	vservers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	karl.matthias, nboldt
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Onno van der Straaten

2007-10-02 05:34:38 EDT

Hi,
I have the privilege to be working on a new eclipse.org vserver for the EPF project. For security reason outside access from those vservers is restricted, which I understand. But for installation and possibly applications running on those vservers, outside access might be desirable and maybe even necessary. 

For this reason I want to suggest adding a HTTP proxy server to the infrastructure. vservers could be allowed temporary or maybe permanent access to this HTTP proxy server for the purpose of installing and configuring those servers using package managers such as rpm that require outside access. 

Thanks and Regards,
Onno

Comment 1 Nick Boldt

2008-01-28 15:48:35 EST

Agreed, this would be useful.

Comment 2 Karl Matthias

2008-07-21 14:42:40 EDT

We're going to open up outbound (to destination) ports 80 and 443 for the vservers.  This will let you load pretty much any package you want, but restricts it to HTTP access.  FTP access is just to much of a shotgun.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2009-05-05 08:46:02 EDT

We won't setup a Proxy server.  We will instead revert to allowing outgoing connections.  If your vserver cannot connect to external hosts on ports 80 and port 443, please let me know.