I thought this was kind of neat. An http proxy is a useful tool to have, there are many types for many different purposes. It's a program that you can put between a client and a web server. See the wiki article for all the common uses for a proxy. Anyway, after playing with these for a couple of days I had some needs at work that it seemed would work if I had a proxy server I could drop some custom code in for various things.

I finally got around to planning the next article in my "Introduction to bfg" series which will hope be done in a week or so. At one point when writing it I was trying to describe why I used the context models in such an "unconventional way". I concluded that at least for me, it is because patterns like Model View Controller, and Model View Template as implemented by some web frameworks today only provide a partial solution to managing application complexity.