[geeks] Transparent proxies

[Christian J Hedemark]

Depends.  At what point in the line between client & server are you 
trying to detect the proxy?

Nice guy sysadmins will add a few headers to let the webmaster know 
that there was a proxy helping out.  Though this is far from the norm I 
suspect.

On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 01:29 PM, Ryan wrote:

> Anyone know of a method to detect transparent proxies between
> a source node and a destination web server? From reading through
> Web Protocols and Practices, it looks as if a proxy is not allowed
> (Via RFC) to modify the majority of the HTTP header fields.
>
> - Ryan
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