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Given that Google App Engine gives away the first 5M requests/month for free and allows outgoing HTTP requests, would it be possible to build a proxy with it?

Given that Google App Engine gives away the first 5M requests/month for free and allows outgoing HTTP requests, would it be possible to build a proxy with it? Let's say I built a SOCKS client for Windows which delegated requests to a small AppEngine app via HTTPS. The server-side would simply make the request on the client's behalf and return the result. Would this work? I suspect latency would be much worse than the EC2/SSH option, but it would be more convenient. I could use something like FoxyProxy to only use the AppEngine hack for sites which required it.

jaxn 17y ago
There are quite a few of these. Check out http://code.google.com/p/downy/source/browse/#hg/proxy http://code.google.com/p/downy/source/browse/#hg/proxy I know this because the building where my office is has filters setup on the internet (I don't pay the bill, so who am I to complain). Because of the AppEngine proxies, they block all appspot.com domains. The crappy part is that I have a couple of projects hosted on AppEngine, so in order to access those I have to run a reverse tunnel to get around their filters. (Making this thread circular). I use this for my proxy (and set a system wide SOCKS proxy on OSX): ssh -CfgN -D 9999 myserver.com