Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy without using accelerator?

This you can do, but you don't really need Squid in the picture.

Simply run a simple web server and tell ipchains to redirect the
users requests to this web server directly. This is done in the exact
same manner as you set up transparent proxying, except that instead
of redirecting the traffic to a proxy you redirect it to a HTTP
server.

Apache can be set up for this task quite easily by using two name
based virtual hosts

a) A registration/login server using a host name, processing showing
the login form and processing the login request.

b) A default server trapping all other requests, redirecting them to
the login server.

Regards
Henrik

On Monday 08 April 2002 03:05, favian ee wrote:
> Thanks for the help.
>
> I was hoping to use the ipchains to direct the user to
> port 3128 before he has logged in so Squid can rewrite
> the URL using Squirm. After he has logged in, the
> ipchains for that user will be edited to allow the
> user to bypass port 3128 and the redirector.
>
> Actually my main goal is to do redirection
> transparently. You mentioned "intercept all requests
> for port 80 and redirect them to an HTTP server".
> Could you tell me how I can do that?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Favian
Received on Sun Apr 07 2002 - 20:59:54 MDT