Google Desktop Proxy (GDP) is a java program that provides access to your Google Desktop search service from remote machines. The software is provided by Project Computing in a precompiled Java JAR file. The Java source code is also being made available.
Google Desktop was designed with a built-in web server which binds to your PC's TCP/IP loopback interface and can only be accessed by requests originating from your PC. No other machines can send search requests to your Google Desktop search engine. Google Desktop Proxy allows you that access however.
This program is a very simple proxy. A browser or other program on another computer can open a connection to this program which passes the request through to the Google Desktop web server on the same machine as the proxy. Because it is on the same machine, the Google Desktop web server processes the request and passes the result back to the proxy which in turn sends it back to the originating requestor.
There are some bugs with this software that still need to be ironed out. Also, it has no authorization support, so use at your own risk.
Thanks to John for pointing to this.
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