Hi there - I have a somewhat unusual project that's structured similar to the upside-down-ternet http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html In my case, we're looking for text patterns in html pages, then replacing some text, saving the modified text locally (the same machine runs squid and nginx), and then issuing the redirect for that modified file. This basically works - but there is some strange behavior on google pages. Some images are broken and then clicking on a result gets you another broken page, while a google URL remains in the address bar. I have a simpler example that I think illustrates the issue: I use a little custom php script for quicklinks that I can add as a search engine in FIrefox. It just takes a string like "g yreka" and issues a 302 redirect to a google search for yreka. Note that "yreka" is a string of interest for the squid redirector program. This doesn't happen with other strings that the redirector does not act upon. (That said, the redirector script isn't looking at the text in the URL, it's grabbing the page that was requested, and searching for the text there.) Without using the proxy, the request/response headers look like this: GET /?unicmd=g+yreka HTTP/1.1 <etc ...> HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:15:43 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11 Location: http://www.google.com/search?q=yreka <etc ...> When running through the proxy, it looks like this: GET /?unicmd=g+yreka HTTP/1.1 <etc ...> HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: nginx/0.7.62 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:21:10 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 17865 Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:21:10 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Cache: MISS from jefferson X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from jefferson:3128 Via: 1.1 jefferson:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE6) Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive In my browser, I still see the ?unicmd=g+yreka URL - but the page is the modified google results page. Hope the question is clear, apologies for the long first message. If you're wondering why I would be doing such a thing, the project is described here: http://ethanmiller.name/projects/virtual_state_jefferson/ Thanks, - Ethan Miller
