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Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:


Stephen Ryan escreveu:
Hi,

I was hoping to use my squid proxy to watch some live streaming video on the web. Imagine my dismay when I access the stream and found I was 'geo-blocked' :) . Somehow the streaming site site realises my PC is remote, even though my squid proxy is local to the streaming site.

Is there a way to use squid to get around my geoblock problem? Would it be something to do with SOCKS and anonymity? (some terms I picked up from incessant googling)


if remote site detected your 'real' ip address, then you probably should look:

#  TAG: forwarded_for   on|off
#       If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
#       in the HTTP requests it forwards.
[ ...... ]
#Default:
# forwarded_for on

in your squid.conf. Setting it to off will make squid stop sending your real ip address.

Thanks for the tip, unfortunately it didnt solve the problem. Heres an excerpt from my logs.Somehow the streaming site knew and redirected me to the geoblock

1218234323.131 472 my.ip.add.ress TCP_MISS/200 938 GET http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/live/32gb/rte1-225.smil? - DIRECT/89.207.56.82 application/smil 1218234369.271 34 my.ip.add.ress TCP_MEM_HIT/200 7219 GET http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/geoblocked_island.gif - NONE/- image/gif


Maybe the streaming site doesnt like "X-Forwarded-For: unknown"....

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