Stephen Ryan wrote:
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"....
There are extensions to XFF coming in squid 3.1 which should get around
this better.
Amos
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