Re: [SQU] Host header munging?

From: Mike Suter <mike@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:52:22 -0500 (CDT)

> Please remember that your redirector still munges the URL, and Squid
> caches the object on the URL after the redirector.

Right, but my assumption is that all that gets rewritten (with
redirect_rewrites_host_header off) is the URL (ie, server to connect to),
and not the host header - is that not correct?

> Well, it might be that redirect_rewrites_host_header is broken in your
> Squid version. Which version is it?

2.3.STABLE3

> My preferred setup for accelerators is to use split DNS (or /etc/hosts)
> for resolving the real server names, and not rewrite the URL at all in
> the acceleration process, except as required to suppor IP based hosts
> for old clients not sending Host headers..

that's the problem - there are legacy IP based servers on this same
accelerator :(

Mike

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