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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
To: Mikko Alutoin <mikko.alutoin@vtt.fi>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Transparent proxying using REDIRECT
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:35:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F1651D5.5060708@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20030717085400.00cb6ac0@vttmail.vtt.fi>

Mikko Alutoin wrote:
> How does the proxy get to know the original destination IP address and 
> port? By looking into the HTTP-request, perhaps? If so, what if the 
> application protocol (some other than HTTP) does not contain the 
> destination URL?

Use SO_ORIGINAL_DST, for example:

getsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, SO_ORIGINAL_DST, &dst_addr, &addrlen);

-- 
Philip Craig - philipc@snapgear.com - http://www.SnapGear.com
SnapGear - Custom Embedded Solutions and Security Appliances



      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17  6:24 Transparent proxying using REDIRECT Mikko Alutoin
2003-07-17  5:28 ` Arthur Meyer
2003-07-17  7:22 ` Cedric Blancher
2003-07-17  7:35 ` Philip Craig [this message]

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