[FX.php List] [OFF] Method to access our server from outside

Jonathan Schwartz jschwartz at exit445.com
Sat Sep 20 15:04:27 MDT 2008


Not sure if you need more than this, but I use the following site for 
cross-browser testing.  Perhaps it can provide what you need.

http://browsershots.org/

J

At 12:53 PM -0700 9/20/08, Troy Meyers wrote:
>My switch to SSL is going quite well. I "went live" with it briefly, 
>and some external testers said the site worked as it should, no 
>surprises. The only difference they saw was that non-secure http 
>requests magically turned into https requests (not obvious unless 
>they were looking for it) ...which is exactly what I wanted.
>
>Further testing here showed a potential problem, but since I'm 
>in-house I don't know if anyone off of our local network experienced 
>it.
>
>What I'm wondering is if there is any way I can contact a remote 
>server, which will in turn forward my page request back here, fetch 
>the page results, then forward the results back to me?
>
>In this way I don't have to wait until external testers are available.
>
>I used to do this using the AOL client software, such as it is, 
>because it seems that http requests in the "browser" went to AOL 
>first, they collected the page, then sent it back. This no longer 
>seems to work reliably, though.
>
>Is there a site or service I can use to accomplish this?
>
>-Troy
>
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