From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-10-09T01:17:57+09:00
Subject: Re: reading from a URL

Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> writes:

> You miss the point. Your proxy isn't requiring authorization and thus it

A bit off topic. Since I have never worked in an enterprise: why do
they put username/passwd authorisation on a web proxy? Can't the proxy
be set as to serve only the internal network and reject connection
from outside? 

Or is it because the proxy is a two-way proxy, allowing
ppl with username/passwd use the proxy to fetch internal pages? If so,
why not use VPN and allow authenticated ppl from outside do more than
fetching internal pages?

YS.