Perl Proxy

[Thorne44]

Hi

I'm using simple script to allow a site to go and fetch it's content from another site and display it as it's own but I'd like the script to pass it's ENV varibles to original site so that site can log it properly.

I'm currently passing cookies already but I lose the IP address, browser, refering URL and all the other logged fields.

I was hoping the env_proxy command would fix it but it doesn't.

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->env_proxy;
$ua->cookie_jar($cookie_pak);
($res) = $ua->request($req);

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Bruce

 

[fishiface]

You can't influence most of the ENV variables at the other end - things like REMOTE_IP would be seriously open for abuse if it wasn't set automatically to the peer address. This probably breaks their logging.

One alternative is to use iframes, setting the source to a URL on the remote server. The end user gets to see the content in your context and the remote server get's to see who really wants the data. As a bonus, the traffic doesn't pass via your site, improving performance.

Yours,

fish

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