On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:41:27PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote: > Is that possible logically? When you say transparent proxy, you mean > that the user has no knowledge of its existence. If it goes about > advertising its presence by way of a huge authentication dialog box, how > transparent is that going to be?
The problem will come much before that. In normal proxy, the browser is supposed to send a request like: GET http://slashdot.org HTTP/1.1 Host: slashdot.org ... [remaining headers] and the proxy will respond with the page, or 407 Authorization Required or whatever... In a transparent proxy, the browser will send a request: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: slashdot.org ... [remainder] and the proxy will get it from wherever it is supposed to. If you send the second request to a proxy of the first type, you get a 400 Bad Request (from squid, at least) - since it is expecting a full URI as the GET request. So, the browser should know if it is dealing with a proxy, to format the request accordingly. It talks to a transparent proxy the same way it would to a normal web server. Binand _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
