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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by x79z1130 <x7...@cxbd.com> on 2004/03/31 13:17:02 UTC
RE: [users@httpd] HOST ADDRESS of a client host behind
transparentproxy?
Actually I'm using the CGI to get the REMOTE_ADDR.
Example: http://search.com.bd/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi server where I'm
testing all.
The problem is, it's not displaying the IP of the client but it's proxy
server[Which is a transparent proxy]. And I knew that. For security
reason I want my users/visitors identified through network. Even if I
have to deny access to others. I guess there are lots of other issues,
like routing and NAT.
I guess SSL is the only achievable solution.
Thank you for the reply.
Zahid Hossain
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:07, Boyle Owen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: x79z1130 [mailto:x79z1130@cxbd.com]
> >
> > And I also know and checked it that I do not find the
> > REMOTE_ADDR of the
> > visitor.
> > But I thought if there is anything beyond my knowledge.
>
> Depends who you mean by "visitor" - you get the proxy's IP which is correct since that really is the machine that visited your site. I'm not a proxy expert but I don't think that the proxy acts like a messenger who goes and gets the page for you and so knows who the page is for when it fetches it. Rather, the request comes in and the proxy checks its cache, if it doesn't have the page, it fetches it. But it's fetching it to fill the cache, not really to serve your particular request... Nothing in the request that the proxy sends to the server says anything about who the original request is for.
>
> > BTW, can I force
> > to identify or how do I know that it's behind a
> > proxy/transparent proxy?
>
> You need some mechanism to authenticate the request. Set up a password-challenge (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html) or, use cookies and server-sided logic (CGI, ASP, JSP etc.) or, using SSL, require client certs (http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_reference.html#ToC17).
>
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
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>
> >
> >
> > Anyway, thank you for your reply. Specially for your
> > explanation of the
> > issue.
> >
> >
> > Zahid Hossain
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:34, Boyle Owen wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: x79z1130 [mailto:x79z1130@cxbd.com]
> > > > Sent: Mittwoch, 31. März 2004 08:38
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Does anyone you have any idea of how to get the HOST ADDRESS
> > > > of a client
> > > > host behind transparent proxy?
> > >
> > > The question is a bit confusing... A "client" is, for example, a
> > > browser. So do you mean that you are on the HTTP server
> > (ie, apache) and
> > > that you have hits coming in from a browser which is coming
> > through a
> > > proxy to your site, and you want to know the IP address of
> > the machine
> > > that the browser is running on?
> > >
> > > If so, you can't. The requests come from the proxy so will
> > have only the
> > > proxy's IP address in the TCP/IP "Source" header. When the
> > reply is sent
> > > back to the proxy, it will reroute it to the internal client. In any
> > > case, even if you did get the client's IP, it would
> > probably be only an
> > > internal address (eg, 192.168.1.1) which you couldn't access.
> > >
> > > If this isn't the answer you were looking for, please post back with
> > > more details of the scenario...
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> > > Owen Boyle
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> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I was trying to search earlier mails but did not see any.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > >
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