On Mon, 2 May 2005, Alvarez, Wilfried wrote:
Hello,
Because I only have one public IP adresse and several apache serveurs, I use Squid as a reverse proxy (accelerator mode) on a dedicated PC. It works well and is very stable. But, my backend servers do not have all the information from the client, and particulary the referer. In fact, apaches serveurs on the backend PCs see the PC on which squid is install as the request source, SO, my apache log files give me the squid PC IP adresse as the referer.
This is the source IP, not the referer.
Is it possible to configure Squid to ask it to forward the complete html information to the backend servers?
Squid preserves the complete HTTP request, including referer. But as it is an application level proxy it does not preserve the TCP/IP details such as source IP or port.
To compensate for this Squid adds a custom "X-Forwarded-For" header carrying the original source IP.
Regards Henrik
