[squid-users] squid as accelerator, users http header passthrough to acc'ed webserver

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hi list.

i have running apache 1.3 for a paysite with several virtual hosts. i
want to setup squid in accelerator mode to get capabilities of traffic
shaping/mgmt. this is running fine and with no problems.

the problem: apache should be protected by some kind of password
protection script to make password trading/sharing difficult (password
sentry, pennywize, arbitrary). all of these scripts use the http header
to get the source ip of the request. this does not fit into the setup
mentioned above. since all requests are derived from squid, all users
seam to use the same ip. squid puts the "x-forwarded-for" field into the
header.

is it possible to "translate" this to be the source of the request as it
is in the usual http scenario? or would this break the http transfer,
because of the accelerated apache to send back packets directly to the
client?

thanks for your ideas

sebastian
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Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 03:05:24 MDT