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> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:10:05 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
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> In our case, we are the carrier. Unfortunately browsers for phones are very
> antiquated and the less you require them to do, the better off you are. In
> fact, they aren't even full blown browsers ... thus the need for a proxy. The
> full blown browsers are on "smart phones" and more then 98% of the
> subscribers do not use them.
Who keeps your subs list and assigns your IP addresses LOL? Even on
smart phones, the strategy is to offload the browser functions to
a server in many cases. I thought the carriers put the default
software on most phones, adding a header shouldn't be that tough as
often these are branded and otherwise customized.
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> Regards,
> Jason P Hodges
> Senior Network and Systems Architect
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> Pocket Communications
> 2819 NW Loop 410
> San Antonio, Texas 78230
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 9:53 AM
> To: Jason Hodges; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
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>> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
>> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:46:12 -0600
>> From: jhodges
>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
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>> Today we are paying another company to proxy for our users. They use a
>> commercial product to accomplish the http header injection.
>> Unfortunately they charge us a ridiculous amount of money to do what
>> seems like a simple job.
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>> The header injection needs to occur at the server/gateway/proxy.
>> Cookies will not work for this.
>
> Well, if the phone number is available on the phone it could
> be injected there if your browser app does this for you. Would that
> violate a privacy or security paradigm ? It seems you need to
> verify the information with a DB maintained by a carrier who has
> assigned the IP and has the customer billing info.
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>> I understand the x-msisdn header to be common in the "mobile world". It
>> is used to identify a subscriber in order to bill them without having to
>> ask them who they are.
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>> Thanks for the feedback. Keep em comin'.
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>> Regards,
>> Jason P Hodges
>> Senior Network and Systems Architect
>>
>> Pocket Communications
>> 2819 NW Loop 410
>> San Antonio, Texas 78230
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Email: [email protected]
>> Desk: 210-447-1220
>> EFax: 210-678-8187
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 9:22 AM
>> To: Jason Hodges; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
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>>> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:08:17 -0600
>>> From: jhodges
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
>>>
>>> Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this post. All feedback
>> is welcome.
>>>
>>> I work for a cell phone company and we use squid along with some fancy
>> NAT and PAT in order to offer various proxying services for cell phone
>> web browsers. Thus far we have been quite successful. If anyone is
>> curious of our set up, just ask.
>>>
>>> I do have a challenge that I have been unable to overcome and I am
>> hoping the user group can help solve it.
>>>
>>> The "Web Content Provider" that serves ringtones, games, etc to our
>> subscribers requires that we have an http header inserted as the users
>> surf their site. The header is x-msisdn. The value should be the
>> subscriber's phone number (mdn). We have been unsuccessful at finding a
>> good/solid solution for retrieving the mdn and inserting an http header.
>> The mdn (in our case) is stored in a database, so the information is
>> easily available. However, we do not know how to make squid request the
>> mdn and inject the http request header.
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>> How does this work without squid? We are using squid to proxy our own
>> custom browser ( only on BB since it uses a lot of RIM browser related
>> classes)
>> and routinely insert various headers and send back browsing info.
>> We use squid to offload things like DNS lookups that can slow down the
>> phone.
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>> It sounds as if you are asking "how do we get the browser on the phone
>> to
>> add an id header using squid?" Will cookies work for you or don't you
>> have
>> anyone to set the cookie?
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>>> Here are some details:
>>> 1. The mdn is stored in a database with an association to the ip
>> address the subscriber was assigned. Optionally this same information is
>> stored in a flat text file (radius accounting detail log)
>>> 2. We only want to inject this http header for certain URLs.
>>>
>>> If anyone can offer suggestions on how we can make this happen, that
>> would be greatly appreciated.
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>> What do you have now? Does it run without squid?
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>>> Thanks in advance for your time and feedback.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason P Hodges
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