[Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

It looks like they've turned it off already, so I wasn't able to check. They also weren't sniffing by port. I connected to a proxy of mine on an odd numbered port (proxy is hosted on a VPS), and it still figured it out. I can understand the DNS redirects. They're annoying, but easy for a user with knowledge to bypass. But "editing" content that comes back to me? That just goes too far.


-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 9:00:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Jonathan C. Bailey < jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us > wrote: 


I never saw a cookie set, and according to some information I saw in the DSL Reports forums, it's based on the cable modem's MAC. 

This really irritates me. To the point that I'd strongly consider not buying a house (I'm kind of in the market atm) if mediacom were the only inet option. Can anyone confirm more details about what's going on with this? Are they proxying all http requests through some kind of layer 7 switch in order to deal w/ 404 requests? 

If so, how does this impact web development work? If you hit a php info (for example this page I just found via google: http://www.gromacs.org/skins/phpinfo.php ) and scroll all the way down to the php variables section does it have an x_forwarded_for or other proxy headers? 

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