I have a problem with a website that doesn't like going through a
parent child proxy setup, if you access the site pointing the client directly
at the parent proxy it open just fine. However, when the client accesses the
website using the child proxy the page fails to load. I have no control over
the website and have sent a request to the support for the site to help resolve
the issue. While waiting to hear back from them, I was wondering if possibly
disabling the via headers would potential help, but wasn't sure of the
consequences that doing so would have.
The eventual configuration in this scenario is to have 2 parents with a
single child, one server can easily handle the number of clients we have, but
we want to use the 2 parents to handle load balancing on multiple internet
connections. I have already used ACLs to send this website along with others I
know have problems with multiple source IPs in a single session, through a
single parent so that they only have failover and not load balancing. This has
been verified to work on all the other sites that I know clients need that have
this problem. I have verified by use of a packet sniffer that this site is
correctly trying to go out a single parent proxy server, and I am considering
disabling the via header to see if that resolves the issue.
In addition to any possible problems with disabling the via headers,
would it be better to do it on the parent proxies or on the child proxy server,
if it doesn't have to be done on both. If it's of any consequence, I do have
the forwarded_for directive set to off on the parents and the child proxy
server.
Thanks,
Dean Weimer
Network Administrator
Orscheln Management Co
