RE: transparent proxy truncates hostnames

        From: Parto Chobeiry [SMTP:parto@chobeiry.de]

> Whenever I start redirecting from port 80 to 3128, the hostnames are
> removed from the URLs and I do not see what I am doing wrong. I am
>
        Hostnames are only ever added to URLs when the client
        is sending to a machine it knows to be a proxy.
        Transparent proxying really is a hack, but requires
        either Host headers or access to the original destination
        IP address as the client thinks it is talking the the origin
        server, which already knows its own name.

        Are you sure the browser is actually sending Host headers?

        If you are doing this for a corporate cache, it is better to
        block port 80 completely and force people to properly configure
        the cache; ISPs may not consider this commercially acceptable
        (customer is always right principle).
Received on Tue Sep 21 1999 - 09:02:56 MDT