Hi Henrik, I have a transparent squid, and its set up as a gateway. Everybody has External IP address.
How can i use your advice so that i don;t run problems with other web sites ? Rgds, Manish. -----Original message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:28:55 +0300 To: Lucia Di Occhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [squid-users] Hotmail blank page Too > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Lucia Di Occhi wrote: > > > I had forgotten to mention I am using Transparent Mode. > > Transparent interception is evil. > > If you absolutely MUST transparently intercept the client traffic then I > highly recommend to NAT all traffic (proxied and direct) to the same IP > address. If not you will certainly run into login and/or session problems > with numerous web sites. > > In addition you should expect things will break with MSIE and other > advanced browsers from time to time in combination with transparent > interception. In such configurations the browsers rightfully assume there > is no proxy in the request chain as they have not been configured to use > one, but then the interception violates the fundamentals of TCP/IP making > the browsers assumptions fail badly. > > But most often the causes to problems is web sites which is overly > sensitive to the source IP address of the client. Not sure if this is the > case for MSN at the moment. > > Regards > Henrik
