Re: [squid-users] Squid header-access All deny all --Bad resolves

On 24.09 17:49, R. Payne wrote:
> While building my first firewall with OpenBSD 3.5 and pf, I added Squid
> 2.5.STABLE5 to proxy http. I had it running okay with the help of
> Daniel's instructions from benzedrine.cx, but then I decided to "play"
> with the settings and things went bad. Incorrect resolves to pages I
> knew existed, but I could no longer reach. I started getting sites
> offering web hosting.
>
> Long story short (headaches, frustration, pkg_delete, recompile, and
> endless changes, one-at-a-time, to squid.conf), I discovered that the
> addition of:
>
> header_access All deny all
>
> was what screwed it all up. Someone smarter than I may know why, but I
> don't. As soon as I commented that out, things worked correctly.
>
> Maybe that bit of information will save someone else some time.

If you do not know what headers mean, you really should not play with
them. You should better read RFC2616 (the HTTP/1.1 protocol) to see
what headers are being used for what reasons, and then you will see what
can you do with them.

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