if you want a quick web proxy for your browsers or for anything, you can define a virtualhost in apache2 as follows:
Listen *:8080 <VirtualHost *:8080> ProxyRequests On ProxyVia On <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> CacheRoot "/tmp" CacheMaxExpire 24 CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1 CacheDefaultExpire 1 ServerName my-proxy ErrorLog "/opt/csw/apache2/var/log/proxy-error.log" CustomLog "/opt/csw/apache2/var/log/proxy-access.log" common </VirtualHost>