Re: [squid-users] Squid + non standard ports behind firewall

Barry Darnton wrote:

> If I just connect to a site on say 8080 it hands of to the firewall on
> port 80 (it's parent) without any error, but if the site has a
> username and password required then after entering the details, squid
> then tries to communicate direct with the destination on the non
> standard port. Of course the firewall gets upset with this as it is
> not running a proxy on this port.

Have you told Squid it is inside a firewall?

see the never_direct directive.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker