[squid-users] Pass sites through without caching

A few sites have caused problems with our squid transparent proxy server.
Etrade and Efax are some examples. I'm not exactly sure why it doesn't
work but both sites give me a waiting for reply message in the browser
when trying to go through the proxy. etrade returns a redirect to
https://www.etrade.com but efax doesn't seem to. I saw some commands
called always_redirect or never_redirect in the configuration file but was
confused on how to use them. Currently I'm using iptables to mark dest
port 80 traffic. If the dest addr is one of the known etrade or efax
addresses, I give the packet a different mark. Based off of the mark, the
packet is redirected using NAT and iptables to the proxy which runs on
port 3128. Is there another way which is better than the above to do
this? I'd rather be able to filter by domain like the squid.conf shows.
I dont' know if iptables can do this.

Hayden Myers
Support Manager
Skyline Network Technologies
hayden@spinbox.com
(410)583-1337 option 2
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 12:54:33 MDT