Re: I need to put a WebSense proxy as a parent of a squid proxy, possible?

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Fernando Medina Jr. wrote:

> Headquarters has recently decide to put a WebSense (content filtering)
> proxy up. We have out Internet coenctivity throught them, so we now
> must go through that proxy. I ahev about 500 machines pointing at our
> squid 2.2STABLE2 proxy and would not like to reconfigure every machine
> to point directly at Websense machine port 8080, because it does not do
> caching. Can I tell squid to go through that machine on port 8080 for
> http? I tried
>
> cache_peer websense.mydomain parent 8080 3130 no-query
>
> but I still get rhough to pages I shoudl not, and access.log shows that
> squid tried to connect to websens but had a miss and then went directly
> to origin server. This won't work soon, because headquarters will only
> allow http access through the firewall from the websense machine's IP
> adress. Can someone help me out? thanks,

Try adding this to your squid.conf:

        acl All src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
        never_direct allow All

Duane W.
Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 11:14:45 MDT