Re: Squid and HTTP headers

Are you sure that #3 is taken care of? Your browsers might be sending the
referral header, but your cache may not be propogating it if you have the
"Paranoid" or "Standard" set. From my experience (1.2.beta23) while the
"standard" option says it will pass the Forwarded-For header unchanged, it
actually take the input from the forwarded_for setting.

Not that I'm complaining - I actually LIKE that bug, since it saved me from
writing that functionality in myself.

Anyway, you should actually take a look at the headers of a request coming out
of your Squid.

JT

At 11:17 AM 8/17/98 +0200, 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
>

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