I'm thinking of using an apache reverse proxy and an SSL certificate to secure surfing by various laptops roaming about in wireless land. My thought was have the users set this https proxy as their proxy in their web browsers, but I haven't found a way of redirecting them immediately to pages on external websites like http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb964631.aspx The initial idea was to secure all browsing when using public wireless. I've tried vaious RewriteRules, but I usually end up with a looping situation that halts the browser, or the obvious Requested url not found on this server. Any suggestions welcome, thanks.
To be clear (since stribika asked): basically, my server would not perform any function except to provide an SSL connection between the server and the client, where the browser has its proxy value set to the name of my server. Therefore, most of the client browsing would be for sites not on my server; the proxy should just allow these requests to go out to the web via a forward proxy(?). I may add my own content at some future date. Maybe the concept is flawed, so I'll post this at serverfault.com