[ILUG] Squid reverse proxy

Nick Murtagh nickm at go2.ie
Sat Jan 19 12:46:56 GMT 2008


> When the reverse proxy connects to the back end server, requests are
> logged with the IP address of the proxy. Which is to be expected I
> suppose, however I was wondering if there is any way to configure Squid
> to pass the IP address of the client through the proxy so that the
> clients IP is logged instead of the proxy's. I know this can be
> configured in ISA server but needless to say I'm trying my best to avoid
> using MS products.

I don't know if squid can do this, but it should be fairly trivial
to add a custom header with the client's IP address if you use
apache as a reverse proxy...




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