Re: [squid-users] trying to make the "Transparent Proxy" invisible

At 18:38 10/04/2003, Joe Solinsky wrote:
>Hi,
> Sorry about the blank earlier message. Web email
>clients seem to pick up on the enter key when you least
>want them to.
>
> I'm using Squid as a transparent proxy server. I
>don't have any use for caching, and I am always using a
>redirector. Sometimes, the redirector sends the
>request to a locally hosted Apache web server, for some
>authentication purposes. The problem I'm having is
>that the 3rd party, proprietary authentication module
>is using the IP address of the Squid server for
>authentication, which I do not want. Naturally, if I
>had the code for the authentication module, I'd just
>take an environment variable such as the
>X-Forwarded-For one.
> There was some discussion about this back in 1996 or
>1998, and the answer was that it wasn't possible to
>"lie" to the web server about the originating IP
>address; I was just wondering if this has changed in
>years since, or coincidentally if there's a trick in
>Apache people might know of to use a different source
>for the client IP address.
>
>-Joe Solinsky

Take a look at the Apache module mod_extract_forwarded available from
http://web.warhound.org/mod_extract_forwarded/ which can be used to do what
you want.
Received on Fri Apr 11 2003 - 02:47:34 MDT