Re: [squid-users] Preventing local intranet addresses from being proxied

----- Original Message -----
From: <stuart.lamble@batepro.co.za>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: [squid-users] Preventing local intranet addresses from being
proxied

> Hello Squid Users
>
> I have a number of web servers on my local LAN.
> In the Internet Explorer configuration, under proxy settings you can add
IP
> addresses of local server NOT to proxy.
> I was wondering if this setup could be done on the proxy itself ie acl
lists
> etc
> This would make life easier as I would not have to go to every workstation
> every time a new web server is added to the LAN.
>
> I do not want these pages to be cached at all.
>
> Maybe I should prevent caching to my entire local LAN 172.16.*.*
>
>
> Is this possible?
> Please provide examples etc
>
There is no way for squid to do what you want, but with IE you should check
out using WPAD and/or .pac files.

The squid FAQ has a pretty good section on using .pac files. For WPAD, you
might want to grab a copy of IEAK, as you can control a lot more than just
the proxy settings.

Jerry
Received on Mon Sep 02 2002 - 09:32:58 MDT