Re: [squid-users] how to append to the requests to origin

Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍ wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The idea is to make entries in origin's access log easily
> distinguishable and usefull. The prototype I've is as follows:
>
> Anything from my squids to their origin servers should have a
> "Bill-To" header, something like,
>
> ~$ curl -v http://192.168.1.100/index.html -o /dev/null --header
> "Bill-To:Western" --silent
> * About to connect() to 192.168.1.100 port 80 (#0)
> * Trying 192.168.1.100... connected
> * Connected to 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) port 80 (#0)
> GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.16.4
> Host: 192.168.1.100
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
> Bill-To:Western <----------------------
>
> The origin server would then log it in its access log as:
>
> Bill-To:Western host:192.168.1.100 virt:127.0.1.1 <snip>
>
>
> Thx../

Aha. What you want is to make the origin server locate and use the
X-Forwarded-For: header. It is designed for this type of usage and
Squid already adds it by default to all requests. It contains the client
IP which sent the request into Squid.

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Amos

>
>
> 2008/12/17 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I've squid running in non-transparent mode. On a MISS, when it makes
>>> requests to the origin, how can something else be passed along with
>>> that request? Like a custom signature header? %{Foobar}i or even
>>> somehting like:
>>>
>>> http.setHeader("X-Pew-Pew:Blah-blah-1")
>>>
>>> thx.!
>>>
>> Define "something" please.
>> There are many ways of changing requests. Some are possible some are not.
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>

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