Re: Transparent proxy probs...

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)

D

Jordan Mendelson wrote:

> 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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