Adding those two lines to my squid.conf appears to have fixed both of my problems. Both Fox.com and IBM Developerworks function great now.
I am surprised that IBM's site appears to be doing funny things when you use a proxy. Thank you for the help! Now if I could just get Hulu to stop blocking my IP . . . Richard On Sat 27 March 2010 12:35:46 Jon Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Richard Esplin wrote: > > > Hulu tells me: > > "Based on your IP address, we noticed you are trying to access Hulu > > through an anonymous proxy tool." > > > > By the way, after enough errors at Hulu it appears that they permanently > > block you. I now get the same error with Squid disabled, and I get no > > response from their support team. > > > > At first I thought it was the Via header, so I disabled it. It doesn't > > solve the error. > > If you want Squid to be completely transparent, I think you need to strip > at least these two headers in squid.conf: > > header_access X-Forwarded-For deny all > header_access Via deny all > > There are probably still tricky ways to tell there's a proxy in the > middle, but X-Forwarded-For and Via are the standard ways to check. > > Jon <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
