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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [squid-users] Reverse proxy tracking source IP's >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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 > >
