Re: [squid-users] proxy: explicit & transparent + VideoCache

Have you asked the videocache group why it functions the way it functions?

adrian

2009/8/6 pavel kolodin <pavelkolodin_at_gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:34:09 -0000, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Possible reasons:
>>
>> 1) 302 being the status you really want to use for this.
>>
>> 2) "transparent proxy" aka "intercepting proxy" aka "man-in-middle attack"
>> perhapse the plugin is smart enough to detect such attacks and prevent
>> them
>> from working.
>>
>> 3) perhapse the plugins is simply smart enough to realize it will never
>> get
>> a redirect back from the real source.
>>
>> 4) perhapse the browser does not have access to the new location.
>>
>> 5) perhapse the browser is limiting the sources the plugin may connect to.
>> raw-IP addresses are known to be dangerous.
>
> Browser (or flash plugin in browser) even don't trying to send request to
> 10.10.10.1 if proxy is transparent.
>
>
Received on Thu Aug 06 2009 - 06:11:47 MDT