Re: [squid-users] x-forwarded-for Fail

From: Will Roberts <ironwill42_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:05:11 -0400

I'm sure it wasn't malicious. That tool was put up in 2003. At some
point in the past 10 years he probably put a reverse proxy in front of
his site. Maybe you should email him and tell him he's broken his header
tool.

On 10/09/2013 03:55 PM, merc1984_at_f-m.fm wrote:
> Didn't miss his point and I understand exactly what he said.
>
> My question is what possible motive could ericgiguere have for
> misrepresenting headers, on a header query site?
>
> It just doesn't make sense.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 12:05, Will Roberts wrote:
>> I think you missed Alex's point.
>>
>> That page itself sits behind a reverse proxy that adds X-Forwarded-For.
>> So using that for your testing isn't going to help.
>>
>>
>> On 10/09/2013 03:01 PM, merc1984_at_f-m.fm wrote:
>>> Well for Heaven's sake.
>>>
>>> What motivation could he possibly have for dinking with teh headers?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 11:08, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>>> On 10/09/2013 10:15 AM, merc1984_at_f-m.fm wrote:
>>>>> Looks like turning off x-forwarded-for, has been disabled now. Nothing
>>>>> works.
>>>>> To see what I'm talking about, go to
>>>>> http://www.ericgiguere.com/tools/http-header-viewer.html
>>>> The above web page hosts a script that cannot be used as intended
>>>> because it sits behind a server that adds X-Forwarded-For and alters
>>>> some other HTTP headers.
>>>>
>>>> Try testing with something more reliable, like taking a packet capture
>>>> and looking at the actual HTTP requests sent by Squid.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>>> Alex.
>>>>
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