But how then does a transparent proxy works?

["Sebastian R." <tengaman@wolke7.net>]

Thanks,

but I still don't understand how this makes any sense whith regards to
a transparent proxy configuration.
From the tutorial:
>Locally generated packets are mapped to the 127.0.0.1 address. In other
>words, this rewrites the destination address to our own host for packets
>that are forwarded, or something alike.
>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
The proxy couldn't tell where the package was destined for, if the
destination address was mapped to 127.0.0.1.


Thanks for your time

Sebastian R.