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You can find quite a few IT infrastructures where an HTTP proxy is used to secure the access to the “World Wide Web” (WWW). In smaller company environments you can configure the proxy for each workstation manually. In larger environments you normally use a so called “proxy.pac” for this. This article gives you an introduction to “proxy.pac”-files.
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Do you know what: It’s that simple to setup an HTTP forwarding proxy (proxy) with ruby. The only thing you need is
webrick’sHTTPProxyServer-class.