On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:29, Jean-Michel Hemstedt wrote:
> I have:
> - non-proxy aware clients (not controlable)
> - non-transparent aware proxy (not controlable,
>   and even not on Linux, it is not in-housed)
>
> an in the middle:
> - one (or more) default gateway, the netfilter box.
>
> => goal:
> 1) HTTP: rewrite the HTTP requests (PDU) so that they
>   can be handled by the proxy.
> 2) HTTPS: insert the CONNECT transactions so that the
>   proxy can create its https tunnel to the orig-server.
>  (and there is no mitma issue)
> 3) for both: keep the source ip addresses of the clients
>   in the modified forwarded packets, so that the proxy
>   can do simple source based authentication (possibly
>   with the collaboration of exteral elements such as
>   radius, but athentication is out of scope here).

How about transproxying to Squid on the netfilter box, and getting Squid to 
passthrough to the `real' proxy?

Cheers; Leon

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