RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers

Today we are paying another company to proxy for our users. They use a
commercial product to accomplish the http header injection.
Unfortunately they charge us a ridiculous amount of money to do what
seems like a simple job.

The header injection needs to occur at the server/gateway/proxy.
Cookies will not work for this.

I understand the x-msisdn header to be common in the "mobile world". It
is used to identify a subscriber in order to bill them without having to
ask them who they are.

Thanks for the feedback. Keep em comin'.

Regards,
Jason P Hodges
Senior Network and Systems Architect

Pocket Communications
2819 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, Texas 78230
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:marchywka_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 9:22 AM
To: Jason Hodges; squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers

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> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:08:17 -0600
> From: jhodges
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
>
> Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this post. All feedback
is welcome.
>
> I work for a cell phone company and we use squid along with some fancy
NAT and PAT in order to offer various proxying services for cell phone
web browsers. Thus far we have been quite successful. If anyone is
curious of our set up, just ask.
>
> I do have a challenge that I have been unable to overcome and I am
hoping the user group can help solve it.
>
> The "Web Content Provider" that serves ringtones, games, etc to our
subscribers requires that we have an http header inserted as the users
surf their site. The header is x-msisdn. The value should be the
subscriber's phone number (mdn). We have been unsuccessful at finding a
good/solid solution for retrieving the mdn and inserting an http header.
The mdn (in our case) is stored in a database, so the information is
easily available. However, we do not know how to make squid request the
mdn and inject the http request header.

How does this work without squid? We are using squid to proxy our own
custom browser ( only on BB since it uses a lot of RIM browser related
classes)
and routinely insert various headers and send back browsing info.
We use squid to offload things like DNS lookups that can slow down the
phone.

It sounds as if you are asking "how do we get the browser on the phone
to
add an id header using squid?" Will cookies work for you or don't you
have
anyone to set the cookie?

>
> Here are some details:
> 1. The mdn is stored in a database with an association to the ip
address the subscriber was assigned. Optionally this same information is
stored in a flat text file (radius accounting detail log)
> 2. We only want to inject this http header for certain URLs.
>
> If anyone can offer suggestions on how we can make this happen, that
would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have now? Does it run without squid?

>
> Thanks in advance for your time and feedback.
>
> Regards,
> Jason P Hodges
>

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