[KLUG Members] ORDB in the maillog

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:27:56AM -0400, 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.

Obviously, a non-interfering proxy on a transparent bridge (or on your
gateway) is going to be pretty much invisible. If it alters some things,
though... I have read of a few methods: try sending GET requests to
name.org but write the headers to anothername.org and see what you get
back.

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