[Privoxy-users] forward-override DNS

[Theo Cushion]

Hi Fabian,

I’ve resolved the issue. I had misunderstood the toggle option. Once toggle was enabled it all worked as expected!

Thanks for your help,

Theo

> On 14 Mar 2018, at 08:38, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> 
> Theo Cushion <mrtheo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have several several proxy servers that are used to access various
>> different services. Some of these require authentication while others do
>> not.
>> 
>> Reading through the documentation it looks like I should use actions to
>> ensure that the Proxy-Authorization header is added, and I can use
>> forward-override to go to the correct proxy server.
>> 
>> My example user.action is this:
>> 
>> {{alias}}
>>  authenticated-proxy = +add-header{Proxy-Authorization: Basic <BASE64
>> User password>} +forward-override{forward the_parent_proxy:80}
>> unauthenticated-proxy = +forward-override{forward
>> another_parent_proxy:80}
>> 
>> { authenticated-proxy }
>>  /
>> 
>> My config file is pretty standard.
>> 
>> I’ve used config.privoxy.org <http://config.privoxy.org/> to check that
>> the URL’s I’m interested in have the correct actions applied - they do.
>> However, when making a request I get a 404 response because the DNS
>> cannot be resolved (my local machine cannot resolve DNS and relies on
>> the proxies to do this)
>> 
>> However, if I remove the forward-override in the user.action stuff and
>> in config.txt just do:
>> 
>> forward / the_parent_proxy:80
>> 
>> Then Privoxy appears to use the parent proxy to resolve the requests as
>> expected and it all works. Looking through the manual I can’t see any
>> settings that look like they affect this behaviour? Is this expected?
> 
> This is not expected. With "forward-override{forward the_parent_proxy:80}"
> Privoxy shouldn't attempt to do a DNS lookup either.
> 
> Did you enable logging to confirm that the forward-override action
> is enabled? A log excerpt would probably help to debug this.
> 
> Fabian
> 
>