Transparent Proxy

Hi!

I am interested in the experimental 'transparent proxy' feature of
newer Linux kernels, and I wondered if this could be used to make
browsers go through proxys without knowing it. I configured my
intranet gateway to redirect every port 80 connections to local port
8080 (squid port) and I told my browser NOT to use a proxy. It worked
well; when I tried to connect to home.netscape.com:80, the connection
was redirected to my local intranet gateway at port 8080, but the
problem was that my browser sent the following lines:

GET / HTTP/1.0
...

while squid was expecting something like this:

GET http://home.netscape.com HTTP/1.0
...

So I got an 'invalid URL' error from squid. Now I would like to know
if there was a way to solve this problem, and if squid (or any other
program) can somehow find out the original destination host of the
connection.

Markus
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Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 06:25:42 MDT