On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: > 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.
Well, my point was: *assume* it is possible to have transparent proxy with auth. browser makes request GET / HTTP/1.0 ... proxy sends response 407 Proxy-Auth required browser displays Auth box. Proxy's presense isn't a secret anymore. Ok, I know that transparent proxy really means transparent to the User-Agent and not the user, but this is what I meant. -- Kiss a non-smoker; taste the difference. _______________________________________________________________ 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
