I have setup squid proxy on an ubuntu server with DB authentication. However, whilst connected to the proxy, if I visit http://www.whatismyip.com/ it still shows my ACTUAL ip address. How can I configure Squid to hide my IP and to hide the fact it's using squid.
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By default, Squid has Forwarded-For
turned on. For more info on what X-Forwarded-For
is, have a gander at the Wikipedia article.
In your situation, you'll want to edit your Squid configuration file to include this line: forwarded_for off
and then restart /etc/init.d/squid restart
(assuming a RPM-based distro).
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This hides the IP address. Which is half the problem so thanks. But http://www.whatismyip.com/ is still able to detect that I'm using a proxy.. – gunwin Apr 18 '12 at 11:55
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I use this site to verify the proxy is properly hidden: http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test
It's not enough to set forwarded_for off
!
It will still send X-Forwarded-For: unknown
, so others will know you use some kind of proxy (although your IP is hidden).
Add those 2 lines to your squid.conf
file:
forwarded_for delete
via off
Then restart squid with service squid3 restart
command, and you're done!
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