RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers

In our case, we are the carrier. Unfortunately browsers for phones are very antiquated and the less you require them to do, the better off you are. In fact, they aren't even full blown browsers ... thus the need for a proxy. The full blown browsers are on "smart phones" and more then 98% of the subscribers do not use them.

Regards,
Jason P Hodges
Senior Network and Systems Architect

Pocket Communications
2819 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, Texas 78230
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Desk: 210-447-1220
EFax: 210-678-8187

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:marchywka_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 9:53 AM
To: Jason Hodges; squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers

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> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid HTTP Headers
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:46:12 -0600
> From: jhodges
> To: marchywka_at_hotmail.com; squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
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> 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.
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> The header injection needs to occur at the server/gateway/proxy.
> Cookies will not work for this.

Well, if the  phone number is available on the phone it could
be injected there if your browser app does this for you. Would that
violate a privacy or security paradigm ? It seems you need to
verify the information with a DB maintained by a carrier who has
assigned the IP and has the customer billing info.

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> 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.
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> Thanks for the feedback. Keep em comin'.
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> Regards,
> Jason P Hodges
> Senior Network and Systems Architect
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> Pocket Communications
> 2819 NW Loop 410
> San Antonio, Texas 78230
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> Email: jhodges_at_pocket.com
> Desk: 210-447-1220
> EFax: 210-678-8187
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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
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>> Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this post. All feedback
> is welcome.
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>> 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.
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>> I do have a challenge that I have been unable to overcome and I am
> hoping the user group can help solve it.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> If anyone can offer suggestions on how we can make this happen, that
> would be greatly appreciated.
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> What do you have now? Does it run without squid?
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>> Thanks in advance for your time and feedback.
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>> Regards,
>> Jason P Hodges
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