Research Topic: Simple http Proxy Server Scenario: A medical facility wants to protect clients and employees privacy while using the clinic’s internet connection. They approached you as a security...

Research Topic: Simple http Proxy Server

Scenario:

A medical facility wants to protect clients and employees privacy while using the clinic’s internet connection. They approached you as a security analyst and asked you to write a program to safeguard their identity, information and activities online while using the network.

At the completion of the task they require you to make a presentation of all the features of the application you designed.

Tasks:

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  Write a simple http proxy server capable of handling http traffic.

  
  

Features must include but not limited to:

1. Handling multiple transactions simultaneously (i.e. several requests and responses) to improve its performance.

2. Blacklisting Domains for greater security. Ex. blocking a specific ip address or a website

3. Content monitoring

4. Logging - storing every outbound and inbound requests

Bonus features: (10%)

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  Proxy should only Forward requests that are authorized to access a service

  
  


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  Handle https traffic

  
  

Mark Scheme:

Security of application – 15%

Creativity of design – 30%

Functionality – 40%

Usability - 15%