Tavian Barnes wrote:

When behind a proxy, the browser sends request to the proxy in the
form of GET http://www.google.com/ig, rather than sending GET /ig to
www.google.com.  It has no idea if the proxy server did some tricky
things behind its back.

Thank you for reminding me of that. I remember reading that somewhere, but I had forgotten. I though that the browser just sent the request to the IP of the proxy as "GET /ig", with a "Host: www.google.com" header.
But now I realise the error of my ways.
Thanks.

André



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