RE: Transparent proxy probs...

On Friday, November 21, 1997 11:55 AM, Dancer
[SMTP:dancer@brisnet.org.au] wrote:
> Aren't you supposed to be able to get the original destination by
> calling..umm...sockaddress()?
>
> I looked at the transproxy code for linux, and that's what it does
> (although
> it _can_ use the headers, that's a messier job)
>

No clue, but in my logs it shows only IPs of the where the users are
going to, and when a user goes somewhere that doesn't exist, the logs
have the IP printed in them instead of the name.

This only happens when using transparent proxies because squid has no way
to know what the original hostname the client was going to unless the
client lists it in it's request and even if it does, squid will not use
it (as I stated below).

Jordan

> > On Friday, November 21, 1997 10:38 AM, Adrian Bool [SMTP:aid@u-
> > net.net]
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a transparent http proxy - first to evaluate
> > > how
> > > bad it is ;-) Any experiances would be warmly recieved...
> > >
> > > Our data is passing thrugh a cisco router that I am policy routing
> > > to a Soalris 2.6 Sparc.
> >
> > Just a note, I have observed a few problems with transparent proxies.
> > Because they can not use the name of the host, some sites break.
> > There
> > was one in particular which used the same IP for two different web
> > sites.
> > The web browser reported to the server what host it was going to, but
> > Squid wasn't forwarding these headers (i'm guessing they are in the
> > headers) ans so the user would always get the same web page over and
> > over.
> >
> > Jordan
> >
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