Re: [squid-users] Not Anonymous ?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:03:06 +1200

Julien P. wrote:
> Hi Amos,
> sorry for the late reply. I tried many configurations and none succeeded.
>
> The best result that I got is that the website is able to detect my
> current ip, but still uses the proxy's one to make the localization.
> (I am using http://www.mon-ip.com to check if my configuration is working or
> not)
>
> I also tried plenty of websites, in order to check whether it is
> important or not to show the user's IP. Unfortunately, a lot of
> website do use the Ip to render the website in different languages.
> The best example would be all the Google websites (google.com,
> youtube.com, etc ...). They all render the website in French (as my
> server is based over there) even if I am currently in San Francisco
> ...

For google. You can use a redirector to move the users to the relevant
ccTLD *.co.uk etc yourself instead of letting google do it.
for others I'm not sure.

>
> So I could really need to find a work around for that as I don't want to
> setup a server in each country for each user :). Do you have any idea,
> or is it just impossible ?
>
> Also, to make everything clear, if I don't want to have anonymising
> turned on, I should not put "via off" and "forwarded_for off" in my
> config file. Right ?

Yes you should have them both turned ON.

Amos

>
> Thank you so much for your daily contributions,
> Julien
>
> Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Julien P. wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> I wasn't able to find any information on a non anoymous proxy server...
>>>
>>> I'm running one squid server for many people located in different
>>> places/countries and I'm running into several issues.
>>> For example: Their language is not well recognized on some websites
>>> because of their hidden Ip address, and some minor stuff based on the
>>> IP address...
>>>
>>> So that's why I would like to know if there is a way to setup squid as
>>> a proxy, but not an anonymous one ...
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your answer.
>>>
>>> Julien
>> The default operations of Squid are non-anonymous.
>>
>> Check that you have not enabled anonymising settings by turning "via off" and "forwarded_for off".
>>
>> With those working, any brokenness is failure at the remote sites to understand proxy HTTP headers correctly.
>>
>> BTW: language settings of websites should be keyed on the Accept-Language: header not IP address. That is more signs of broken websites.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE13
>> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.6

-- 
Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE14
   Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.7
Received on Sat Apr 18 2009 - 23:03:07 MDT

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