Re: Squid and HTTP headers

I guess they changed their message policy, now they allow 10 messages
for per phone and I was using the same service with my proxy and it was working,
for some easy solution is to put that site to peoples' proxy exceptions list
then they would not use proxy for just www.mtn.co.za address

Dancer wrote:

> They also only allow an address to send three such messages per day,
> then they start getting 'You cannot do this'. Probably other users have
> already used the facility to capacity.
>
> D
>
> Robert Claeson wrote:
> >
> > Several of our users has "discovered" a web page at a mobile telephone
> > operator in South Africa that allows one to send text SMS messages to GSM
> > phones. The problem is, when they try sending a message when the proxy
> > server here is enabled in their web browsers (IE 4.01 and Netscape 4.05),
> > they just get an error message from that site that says "You cannot do
> > this". When the proxy setup is disabled, everything works as advertised.
> >
> > I asked the people at that site why this is so, and this is the response I
> > got:
> >
> > >Five possibilities here:
> > >
> > >1) You are using the wrong URL - you must use
> > >the normal page - http://www.mtn.co.za/regulars/sms/ or text only page -
> > >http://www.mtn.co.za/regulars/sms/text.html
> > >
> > >2) You must use the latest copy of the page. Be sure to clear your cache
> > and
> > >reload our page to check this.
> > >
> > >3) You must be using a browser that supports the standard internet referrer
> > >header. Although other browsers do support this, we recommend Netscape or
> > >Microsoft versions 3.02 or newer (no beta or gold versions)
> > >
> > >4) You are using one of the blacklisted servers to connect to the
> > Internet -
> > >see the blacklist page on our site -
> > >http://www.mtn.co.za/regulars/sms/blacklist.html
> > >
> > >5) You are using a proxy or firewall server that does not provide our
> > system
> > >with the correct header. Please contact your network administrator.
> >
> > 1-4 checks clear, so the remaining one is point 5 above. Is it so that Squid
> > doesn't send the header mentioned? We're using Squid 1.1.21.
> >
> > Thank's,
> >
> > Robert
Received on Mon Aug 17 1998 - 10:09:50 MDT