On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 04:51, Brian May wrote: > AFAIK transparent proxying in Linux is limited to redirecting all ports > to a given port another host. It is not possible for the proxy server to > tell, for instance what the original destination IP address was. Is this true, or will a getsockname() performed on a TCP socket which was created as one endpoint of a connection which is being transparently proxied give the client's intended destination address? I do not know. > A transparent HTTP proxy relies on the server name HTTP1.1 request > field to determine what host the client really wanted to connect to. > (this has been tested with Pacific's transparent proxy). I do know that all HTTP/1.1 requests must contain a Host: header to be valid. Even if you knew the destination IP address, if you did not have a Host: header you couldn't successfully complete an HTTP/1.1 request. -- Jeff S Wheeler jsw@five-elements.com Software Development Five Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/
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