Re: Transparent Proxy

On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:16:57PM +0000, Markus Sabadello wrote:
: 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

Yes, it's not enough to redirect the request. You must rewrite the
request to the complete url. There exists a little daemon `trproxyd' or
`transproxy' doing that.

    0/0 80 redirect -> 81 -> tproxyd -> 8080

        Heiko
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Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 07:01:11 MDT