Home › Forums › Feature Requests / Enhancements

X-Forwarded-For option

Fri, 06/26/2009 - 02:51 — DeathWolf

For every proxy it would be very useful to be able to set that http variable to whatever the user wants.
Thanks.

‹ Automatically switch to proxy in private mode? A Criticism and Two Suggestions ›
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 23:29 — ericjung

Thanks, I've added this to

Thanks, I've added this to the "to do" list.

Eric

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 07:32 — proxyservice

the reason?

DeathWolf wrote:

For every proxy it would be very useful to be able to set that http variable to whatever the user wants.

I think this is not possible. This particular header 'X-Forwarded-For' is added by proxy server itself BEFORE the actual request to the destination server is made. There is no way for FoxyProxy to instruct proxy server wether or not X-Forwarded-For should be used.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 16:54 — DeathWolf

I meant for every entry in

I meant for every entry in foxyproxy. It is possible to set it for normal hosts though, and this would be very useful especially with foxyproxy's domain white/black lists.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 17:44 — ericjung

Technically, this is not a

Technically, this is not a problem. Firefox extensions/addons can set any HTTP header on outbound HTTP requests. Whether or not the proxy server you're using decides to strip those headers or pass them along is beyond the control of the Firefox extension.

For example, see X-Forwarded-For Spoofer and Modify Headers.

So I'm wondering if you want to set arbitrary HTTP headers per proxy configuration ("Add New Proxy") or by whitelist patterns?

Eric

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 20:52 — DeathWolf

per proxy would be the

per proxy would be the logical way I believe, and yes arbitrary headers would be really handy.