Re: [squid-users] Reverse proxy tracking source IP's

configure squid in httpd_accelerator mode and it will give the
X_Forwarded_For header to your web server unless to set it up
to anonymize such a feature


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:49:45 -0700
>From: "robert schwartz" <robert@mrsquirrel.com>
>Subject: [squid-users] Reverse proxy tracking source IP's
>To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
>
>I have an interesting problem, we have to reverse proxy
incoming web
>requests to an application that needs to know the end-user's
IP address.
>This is for security not for performance, so there's no need
to cache
>the actuall results. Our current proxy software cannot
communicate this
>information to the backend web server (every requests looks
like its
>coming from the proxy server obviously), and I was wondering
if SQUID
>can do this? It would be like "forwarded_for" for reverse
proxy so that
>there's something in the header the destination web server
can read that
>tells it the requesting client's real IP address. Is there a
patch or a
>well-known config option that has elluded my googling and
MARC searching
>that presents the requestor's IP address to the accelerated
server?
>
>TIA
>Robert
>
>