Re: HOW CAN I FORWARD CLIENTS IP INSTEAD OF SQUID's

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:07:05 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Khalid Mahmood wrote:

> while running squid transparnt how it is possible to forward the
>client's IP address in HTTP request instead of squid machine's IP.

Squid does this, in a header called X-forwarded-for.

However, origin servers should NEVER trust the value. Since its
just a text header, anyone can put any value there that they want.

Duane W.
Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 00:10:10 MDT

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