RE: SurfControl & SNAT

  • From: "Ball, Dan" <DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:21:04 -0400

Ah, okay, this makes much more sense.  Can I summarize it by saying that
when browsing the web without using a proxy, it returns a slightly
different URL with ISA2004 than it did with ISA2000, which confuses the
SurfControl plug-in, causing it to ignore the request?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farinic [mailto:davidf@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:25
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] RE: SurfControl & SNAT

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>>Okay, so why do you think it worked with ISA2000, but not with
ISA2004?
>It didn't.

This is the most probable reason why it might work for ISA2000 and not
for ISA2004:

One of the differences:

Example request with URL: http://xxx.com/test.txt  from SNAT client

ISA proxy function for plugins:
GetServerVariable(pfc,"URL",&url[0],&dwSize))
Returns for SNAT&FW client 

On ISA2004:
"/test.txt"

On ISA2000 same function for same clients returns:

"http://xxx.com/test.txt";

This change has to be considered by any ISA ISAPI Proxy plug-in working
with URLs.

Regards David Farinic.

P.S.: IMHO user credentials are not in question here as problem is that
they don't see URL which breaks everything. User's credentials don't as
u can still deploy "filter [SEX sites] for all clients" scenario.


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