Re: [squid-users] Does referer gets rewritten?

Squid does not change Referer, nor does it touch any Location headers
returned by the origin servers. Mildly speaking there is lots of things
that can be improved when using Squid as an accelerator / reverse proxy.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Vsevolod Ilyushchenko wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to provide external access to a Web server behind a firewall via a
> proxy program. I tried to use Apache with ProxyRewrite module, and it
> almost works, except that the current version of the module does not change
> the referer field of the HTTP request.
> 
> In case it's not clear, here is what happens: computer A on the Internet
> goes to computer B on our network. Computer B is actually a proxy and
> forwards the request to computer C. On receiving the reply from C computer
> B rewrites every link in the page so that the links point to B, not C. So
> client A thinks that all the pages come from B and puts B accordingly as
> the referer. The problem is that the application running on C is brain-dead
> and wants to have C as the referer.
> 
> Can I use Squid in this setting? Will it change the referer field?
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
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