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title: "You are a beautiful and unique snowflake, to me anyway."
date: 2002-04-23T20:14:19-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/04/23/oooaad/
author: Les Orchard
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# You are a beautiful and unique snowflake, to me anyway.

<p>Prof Avery <a href="http://kavery.ecs.fullerton.edu/index.cgi/2002/Apr/23#1019549720">writes</a>:<blockquote><i>Bad enough that the IM blog idea isn't new, the 0xDECAFBAD guy beat me to <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/news_archives/000087.shtml#000087">"404 Correction" in a Personal HTTP Proxy via Google's Cache</a>.</p>
<p>Oh well, guess there's only one thing for me to do: quit whining and write the code...</i></blockquote>So I'm the 0xDECAFBAD guy now, eh?  Hee-hee.</p>
<p>Well, I haven't gotten around to writing the proxy yet, so <i>you</i> can beat <i>me</i> to <i>that</i> still. :)  I've had a metric ton of good and sometimes new ideas throughout my relatively short life, but I have a habit of not getting very many of them done.  <i>That's</i> where it counts, not necessarily in the novelty of the idea.</p>
<p>I mean...  just look at Microsoft.</p>
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            <div class="content">Oops.  I would have responded sooner but somehow I missed this post.  Forgive me, I was in a mood.

Here's an update: I've written a small proxy server or two in Perl for debugging, but I'd rather use someone else's proxy code.  If this thing works, I'd use it full-time, so best to start with something that's production-ready.  I played with Squid thinking I could use a redirector but that only seems to modify requests, not responses.  Apparently what I want is a "reverse proxy," which they're still working on.

So now I'm thinking either Apache with mod_proxy and mod_perl or a personal proxy server like  Muffin.

If anyone has thoughts, I'd like to hear them.  I'm gonna write this code eventually, I swear :-)</div>
            
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