[squid-users] Access Problem to VMWARE, IBM and Truste.com through Squid

[Eliezer Croitoru]

Hey,

This is a very old post but I was unable to understand the solution to 
the issue.
I have looked again on the logs and since they show a 500 internal 
server error response I understood that the issue is not on the 
server(site) side only and might be on the client(eg other side of the 
internet and can be either a proxy or a web-browser).

Sometimes websites do not like to handle "special" request which was not 
meant to be there in the first place.

As an example:
I have seen couple times in the past(before 2013) that a public service 
was honoring *any* "X-Forwarded-For" headers which resulted in all sort 
of weird results while displaying the page.
One example was that instead of a link to the external web page address 
I got lots of internal urls which was not suppose to be there at all.
On this specific incident I had the chance to see how the "internal" 
network infrastructure is designed and implemented and which I know 
nobody planned to show me.

All The Bests,
Eliezer Croitoru

On 03/10/2013 13:26, Babelo Gmvsdm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all Thx Amos for your enlightenment, even if  I had to admit that it's not yet
> all clear for me, My knowledge of proxy is very light.
>
> So a little update about my last post.
>
> I told that blocking the access to Truste.com is not a solution, so it's not really true.
>
> Usually I block sites using DBs used by SquidGuard, and here this method does not work (I don't know why).
> But, blocking via Squid ACL works, I mean there is no popup anymore and websites are accessible, so it's not a perfect solution but a least is helps.
>
> If you have an Idea of what I could do to solve this better that this patch it would be great.
>
> At least thx for all you have already done.
>
> HErC. 		 	   		
>