From 90d232dc4a76fd47106f5a38862c11cfcf25f825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hanishkvc Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:31:30 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] SimpleChatTC:SimpleProxy: Update readme wrt mimicing client req ie during proxying --- tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md index 702b833799..83781a31ea 100644 --- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md +++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md @@ -374,7 +374,11 @@ in a simple minded manner by dropping head block as well as all scripts/styles/f before enabling fetch web related tool calls. * The bundled simple proxy can be found at * tools/server/public_simplechat/local.tools/simpleproxy.py -* it provides for a basic white list of allowed domains to access or so + * it provides for a basic white list of allowed domains to access, to an extent + * it tries to mimic the client/browser making the request to it by propogating header entries like + user-agent, accept and accept-language from the got request to the generated request during proxying + so that websites will hopefully respect the request rather than blindly rejecting it as coming from + a non-browser entity. #### Extending with new tools