Re: Do I Need a Proxy Server ?

Mike wrote:
Here's my situation -

I'm very green at web server management so ...

I have a Sun Blade 150 w/Sol 10 and Apache 1.3.27

I also have an IP camera (Gadspot NC1000-W10) on my home network.

I would like to be able to see the camera output at work, however,
the company I work for evidently has something blocked so I can not see
the output. When I go to other locations outside the company I can view
the camera output just fine. But at work I just get an error like
"Network TCP error / timeout"

If you run the camera's web server on port 80 there should be no problems at all. Unless your company restricts you to only a number of web sites (I know some companies do this), then just running on port 80 will work. I suspect you can configure the port of the camera, which is probably the easiest way.

I've run an HTTPS server on port 443, which stops anyone in the company knowing what I was doing (accessing some software I owned which I could not install on the company network).

On another occasion I run my SSH server on port 443. Not that it would be hard for someone to find out you had an SSH server on the port by telneting to 443 (eg below for 22)

teal /export/home/drkirkby % telnet localhost 22
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-Sun_SSH_1.1

but they could not see what you were doing.

You might find it useful to restrict the IP address range from which the camera can be seen. If you only want it for you to see it at work, it is pointless having a port (80 or whatever else) open to the whole world - it is small security risk which you can reduce further with a firewall.

If you can't run the camera on port 80 then the situation is more complex. But someone else has said he can help you with a solution.
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