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A simple HTTP proxy that fogs over naughty URLs

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-07-13 · latest 2024-02-03

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  1. Also from Stripe team (used in past, and believe still running without issues to this day) https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen Smokescreen is a HTTP CONNECT proxy. It proxies most traffic from Stripe to the external world (e.g.,…
  2. Stripe built an OSS egress network proxy that prevents webhooks from reaching internal resources: https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen
  3. …via Smokescreen seems the most reliable if you’re dealing with user controlled arbitrary URLs. [1] https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen
  4. Yeah, well, not only HTTP*, but actually whitelisting whatever outgoing connection you may need. https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen Suppose you configured your webserver to run with limited privileges so as if someone hacks it it has…
  5. > " https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen " I don't understand why they built this. The problem described here is solved by using a firewall, where certain machines/processes are either allowed or disallowed to communicate with other…
    comment by csmpltn · 2021-09-09 · in OWASP Top 10 2021
  6. …should be quarantine'd, and it does the enforcement of access to internal/external IPs or not. [1] https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen
    comment by plasma · 2021-09-09 · in OWASP Top 10 2021