Re: [squid-users] Problem with HTTP Header UserAgent

What I am saying is that it is possible the administrator of the Squid
server has enabled this anonymization feature, to explicitly NOT forward
the user-agent header for privacy reasons. This is not something that is
done by default, bot some administrators enable these anonymization
features to increas the privacy of their users, including not telling
the Internet what kind of browser and operating system they are using.

If he has, and now wants to forward the User-agent header, then the
configuration of this directive will need to be changed to reflect the
new desires.

Regards
Henrik

Bob Whitley wrote:
>
> Thanks Henrik!
>
> I'm not familiar with Squid at all, but I did find the following excerpt of
> information that sounds exactly like what you are talking about:
>
> Tag Name: anonymize_headers
>
> Usage: anonymize_headers allow|deny header_name ...
>
> Description:
> This option replaces the old 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is
> much more configurable. You may now specify exactly which headers are to be
> allowed, or which are to be removed from outgoing requests.
> There are two methods of using this option. You may either allow specific
> headers (thus denying all others), or you may deny specific headers (thus
> allowing all others).
>
> For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old 'http_anonymizer
> standard' option, you should use:
> anonymize_headers deny From Referer Server
> anonymize_headers deny User-Agent WWW-Authenticate Link
>
> Am I correct in guessing that this is the setting that needs to be changed
> to enable the User-Agent HTTP header?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: Bob Whitley
> Cc: 'squid-users@squid-cache.org'
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Problem with HTTP Header UserAgent
>
> Bob Whitley wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone encountered a problem with Squid 2.4 and IE where the HTTP
> Header
> > "UserAgent" has a value of "Unknown/1.0" when it should be something like
> > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461)"?
>
> Only if you are using the anonymization features of Squid to filter away
> the User-agent string..
>
> Meaning, if you tell Squid not to tell servers which browser you are
> using, then it won't. This filtering to anonymize the user is not
> enabled by default, but can be enabled in squid.conf.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu May 30 2002 - 02:51:12 MDT