[diamondsea]

Correct, it's for showing off-site content on your own secure pages, such as a portal site showing a photo-of-the-day from another site or an RSS feed containing images.

Yes, you could roll your own solution, but this is, well, easier and lots of non-programmer admins might have trouble with it. This is just a simple way to access that site without having to write or load scripts onto your server.

Right now, it's just a straight passthrough (GET/ECHO) of the requested URL, nothing fancy. If you request an HTML or RSS page it will try some basic munging of the content to change the non-SSL links to reroute them through the fixssl system. I could expand on those if there's any interest in the service.