Differences between version 3 and predecessor to the previous major change of TransparentProxy.
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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, September 21, 2002 4:27:26 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, September 21, 2002 4:09:10 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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* The source address is no longer your machine but the proxy, so any website that uses IP based authentication won't work.
* The source address may come from different IP's every time you request a page, so any website that remembers what IP your on and requires you to login each time you change it will ask you to login again always, sigh.
* The TransparentProxy accepts the connection, gets the request *then* goes and finds out if the page is available, so your browser doesn't get to handle events such as "Connection Timed out" or "Connection Refused"
* The TransparentProxy resolves the destination host again which may be different to what your machine resolves it to, for instance if you use an AlternativeRoot[1], or have a /etc/hosts (hosts(5)) entry for the machine the TransparentProxy will either fail to find the [DNS] for it, or even worse, find it's own one (which may be an old cached incorrect version).
-* Your [ISP] uses software that is not clever enough. For example, [Xtra]'s proxy (used to? still?) didn't look at the "Accept-Language" header. For example, if I send a request for the home page of www.debian.org with Accept-Language set to French, and you later send a request for the same page (but your browser sends a different language for Accept-Language) then you might get the French version if the proxy decides that the page is not yet expired.
+* Your [ISP] uses software that is not clever enough. For example, [Xtra]'s proxy (used to? still?) didn't look at the "Accept-Language" header. For example, if I send a request for the home page of www.debian.org with Accept-Language set to French, and you later send a request for the same page (but your browser sends a different language for Accept-Language) then you might get the French version if the proxy decides that the page is not yet expired. ''That would explain why I kept getting debian pages in french! Why couldn't you just read them in plain english like everyone else? <grin> -- PerryLorier''
[1]: Not a good idea at the best of time anyway.
