2009/2/7 Chris Rowson <christopherrow...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Harry, the only IP address on the network that can get out to the 'net > is > > that of the proxy. All traffic has to go through the proxy. > > > > Try installing the user agent switcher addon for firefox to make ff on > ubuntu appear as if it is whatever browser works on windows. > > I have seen poorly configured squid proxies which look for specific > user agent strings from the client. > > Cheers, > Al. > > Thanks for the suggestion Al but unfortunately that didn't work (tried Windows + IE7 settings and confirmed it was sending that user agent out). For anyone interested, heres what the full header sent by the browser normally contains.... (according to whatsmyuseragent.com)
I do manage the proxy so if it's mis-configured then it's my fault lol ;-) HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL:max-age=0 HTTP_CONNECTION:keep-alive HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE:300 HTTP_VIA:1.1 InternalProxy:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE12) HTTP_ACCEPT:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip,deflate HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-gb,en;q=0.5 HTTP_COOKIE:ASPSESSIONIDQQRDRARC=LACGFILCKFHKBKIGFEODJOBC HTTP_HOST:whatsmyuseragent.com HTTP_REFERER: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=what+is+my+user+agent&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:unofficial&client=firefox-a HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5 HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:192.168.0.127
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