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Re: [users@httpd] Forward proxies and aliases

André Warnier

2008-07-14

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Tavian Barnes wrote:
>
> When behind a proxy, the browser sends request to the proxy in the
> form of GET http://www.google.com/ig, rather than sending GET /ig to
> www.google.com. It has no idea if the proxy server did some tricky
> things behind its back.
>
Thank you for reminding me of that. I remember reading that somewhere,
but I had forgotten. I though that the browser just sent the request to
the IP of the proxy as "GET /ig", with a "Host: www.google.com" header.
But now I realise the error of my ways.
Thanks.

André



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