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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+
+"""This is a blind proxy that we use to get around browser
+restrictions that prevent the Javascript from loading pages not on the
+same server as the Javascript.  This has several problems: it's less
+efficient, it might break some sites, and it's a security risk because
+people can use this proxy to browse the web and possibly do bad stuff
+with it.  If you can get your code signed (see:
+http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToSignJavascript), then you should
+modify Parameters.js so that this isn't used.  Otherwise, you're stuck
+with it.  It only loads pages via http and https, but it can load any
+content type. XML and HTML are both currently used by Openlayers."""
+
+import urllib
+import cgi
+
+fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
+url = fs.getvalue('url', "http://openlayers.org")
+
+if url.startswith("http://") or url.startswith("https://"):
+
+    y = urllib.urlopen(url)
+    
+    headers = str(y.info()).split('\n')
+    for h in headers:
+        if h.startswith("Content-Type:"):
+            print h
+    print
+    
+    print y.read()
+    
+    y.close()
+else:
+    print """Content-Type: text/plain
+
+Illegal request."""