[squid-users] Help!

Hi everyone

Due to a failure of our main MS proxy server, my test box
which has a squid running on RHEL WS3.0 has suddenly been
thrown live. It is running quite nicely and performing
extremely well despite a relatively lowly specification. But
we've run into a problem. Some of our sites use what appears
to be a java applet to run 5250 emulation from an internet
site. This worked on the old proxy but is failing on the
squid...

From what I have seen in a quick search of the web the
problem is probably that the old MS proxy handled SOCKS and
the squid doesn't. I have an application named stunnel
(v4.04) installed on the server which is, I understand, a
tool for tunnelling socks connections over http. Can I make
squid and this stunnel application work together or is
getting stunnel to work a completely separate issue? If so I
apologise for being off-topic.

From now I'll be feverishly searching around the net and
reading man pages to try to work out how this all hangs
together but since I am pretty much a linux and squid
novice, any hints or tips would be most welcome.

Hopeful thanks,

Ian Large

PS In case it is needed, squid -v reports:

Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE3
configure options: --host=i386-redhat-linux
--build=i386-redhat-linux
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
--prefix=/usr
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share
--includedir=/usr/include
--libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
--localstatedir=/var
--sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --exec_prefix=/usr
--bindir=/usr/sbin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc/squid --enable-poll --enable-snmp
--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru
--enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,null,ufs --enable-ssl
--with-openssl=/usr/kerberos --enable-delay-pools
--enable-linux-netfilter --with-pthreads
--enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP,NCSA,PAM,SMB,SASL,MSNT,winb
ind
--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,winbind,fakeauth
--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,unix_group,
wbinfo_group,winbind_group --enable-auth=basic,ntlm
--enable-useragent-log --enable-referer-log

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Received on Wed Nov 03 2004 - 06:35:23 MST