Re: Summary of Transparent proxy/How-to

Dancer wrote:

> Shouldn't the server be returning a location: header (okay, so
> maybe it's wishful thinking) specifying the canonical URL of
> the retrieved object?

No. Location: is not used in that way. Location: is used when a object
is moved to a new location (redirect), and similar situations.

You are thinking on Content-Location, but by security reasons it is not
useful in this context ("correcting" the server part of a URL). It Squid
used this header, then anyone could set up a server that injects a fake
home page into a Squid cache.

By security reasons cache key (URL) needs to be from the actual request,
and possibly some variables from the response added to that (not done at
the moment).

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Henrik Nordström