On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:45:15PM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > to that partial mirror, without going through the CGI script gives you > > > access to the partial packages). > > Sounds like apt-proxy to me. > > Yes, deserving of the "worst application for shell script" award. There are plenty of shell scripts that are worse. apt-proxy version 2 is written in Python, actually. > apt-proxy states up front that it is not secure, too. More of a disclaimer than a known problem; a DoS attack could be possible by filling up the cache, but it does not run with any special privileges itself. Chris
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