Re: access readersdigest

From: Duane Wessels <wessels>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 09:52:12 -0800

ongbh@staff.singnet.com.sg writes:

>> Recently we've encountered problems accessing www.readersdigest.com thru
>> proxy cache. The server's software they are using is OneServer
>> (www.connectinc.com).
>
>Got a quick fix for this.
>
>Apparently, this very OneServer doesn't recognize the "Forwarded: by..."
>header. Simply comment off this following code in http.c should
>fix it.
>
>if (cfd > -1 && opt_forwarded_for) {
> sprintf(ybuf, "%s for %s\r\n", ForwardedBy, fd_table[cfd].ipaddr);
>} else {
> sprintf(ybuf, "%s\r\n", ForwardedBy);
>}
>
>By the way, is "Forwarded:" a value HTTP header ? Can't find
>it on the HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 spec.

Hmm, yes indeed. This is what you get for implementing draft specs I
suppose. Forwarded: was used in earlier versions of
draft-ietf-http-v11-specNN, but now I see they are calling it "Via:".

Duane W.
Received on Mon Nov 18 1996 - 09:52:12 MST

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