Re: [squid-users] Handling GeoIP specific content

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> Unfortunately, that wouldn't help in this case... Even if we send
> domestic traffic directly to the servers, any traffic that (rightly so
> based on DNS/Geo separation) ends up on the euro based caches, would
> only appear to originate from the country they are based in. We lose
> granularity at the country level...
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> I think we're gonna try to play around with follow-x-forwarded and
> apache to see if we can parse based on that.

Thats the way to go. Just make sure its left turned on at the proxy.

Far too many admin turn it and other proxy inserted headers off 'for
security' forgetting that hiding the proxy makes it appear to be the
evil-doer and kills the company reputation and protecting the real abuser.

Amos

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> thanx,
> sascha =)
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> On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:10 PM, John Moylan wrote:
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>> Some sites use dynamic DNS based on lookups to something like
>> Maxmind or Quova.
>>
>> J
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>> On Dec 3, 2007 6:02 PM, Sascha Linn <slinn@hoodiny.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> I'm sure someone has to have dealt with this... but I cal only find
>>> one hit in the archives relating to dealing with GeoIP specific
>>> content. And it's over a year old (a patch for 2.5 that appends a
>>> header to the request.)
>>>
>>> Basically, we want to have a reverse proxy in Europe to offload some
>>> of our traffic (servers in the US.) However, some of the content on
>>> the site is GeoIP specific (ie. users in Spain see one thing, those
>>> in
>>> France another.) What's the best way to deal with this?
>>>
>>> thanx,
>>> sascha =)
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