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Didn't miss his point and I understand exactly what he said.

My question is what possible motive could ericgiguere have for
misrepresenting headers, on a header query site?

It just doesn't make sense.


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 12:05, Will Roberts wrote:
> I think you missed Alex's point.
> 
> That page itself sits behind a reverse proxy that adds X-Forwarded-For. 
> So using that for your testing isn't going to help.
> 
> 
> On 10/09/2013 03:01 PM, merc1984@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Well for Heaven's sake.
> >
> > What motivation could he possibly have for dinking with teh headers?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 11:08, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> >> On 10/09/2013 10:15 AM, merc1984@xxxxxx wrote:
> >>> Looks like turning off x-forwarded-for, has been disabled now.  Nothing
> >>> works.
> >>> To see what I'm talking about, go to
> >>> http://www.ericgiguere.com/tools/http-header-viewer.html
> >>
> >> The above web page hosts a script that cannot be used as intended
> >> because it sits behind a server that adds X-Forwarded-For and alters
> >> some other HTTP headers.
> >>
> >> Try testing with something more reliable, like taking a packet capture
> >> and looking at the actual HTTP requests sent by Squid.
> >>
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Alex.
> >>
> 

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