YOu have to talk to the webmaster of this site to have them explain how/when they use the X-Forwarded-For header. Seems they for some unknown reason only use this header for certain browser types.
Regards Henrik On Tuesday 28 January 2003 10.09, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Hi, > you are right. With MS stations my access is granted, with > others not I took very different stations to try to solve my > problem, i don't find any clue about my problem. > So, looking at the devel.squid-cache-cache.org/cgi-bin/test url, > the results are the same for any station: the x-forwarded field is > everytime correct whatever i'll be granted accessor not! > > I try with different browser. I have these results: > WinXP with IE 6.0.2: ok > the same with Netscape 4.7: not ok > win 98 with Netscape 4.7 > the same + IE 4.72: not ok > MacOS 10.2 + IE 5.2 and Netscape 4.5 not ok > MacOS 9xx + Netscape 4.5 and IE 5.01: not ok > Linux suse 8.1 + netscape 7.0 not ok > Everytime i have: > Source address: Ip how my squid proxy > via: name of my proxy + squid version (Squid/2.3.stable4-hno.cvs) > forwarded from: the ip of the workstation > > I know it is not supposed to have different results with differents > browsers on the same system, i find it more than weird too > > One more precision, with i'm telling "access granted", i mean the > foreign restricted website recognize (i don't know how...) the IP > of my workstation and all go on well. > When access is not granted it gives me the IP of my proxy and > telling me an access denied banner. > > these are all the elements in my possession! i have no more new > idea to try to explain how this happens! > > Le Mardi 28 Janvier 2003 00:14, Colin Campbell a �crit : > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:55:25 +0100 > > > > Laurent HENRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i didn't know this URL, thank you ! > > > It reports good parameters: > > > source address: IP of my proxy > > > forwarded from: my IP > > > ...but the website send me back the IP of my proxy and deny me > > > access. I'll need to test it on the MS workstations to find > > > what it answers (i insists, sometimes it recognizes the IP > > > instead of the squid's IP! ) > > > > > > Thank you for the examples, i don't need other one than NAT to > > > tell it is a strange method of filtering... > > > > This is a bit out of left field and I haven't been following that > > closely but I'll throw in my thoughts anyway :-) > > > > If I remember correctly, your MS workstations, going through > > squid work fine. Other machines, going through the same squid > > don't. Are they all running the same browser? Has this come down > > to the MS boxes run IE and work while everything else, running > > other browsers fails? > > > > Colin > > -- > > Colin Campbell > > Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster > > CITEC > > +61 7 3227 6334
