Re: [squid-users] Identification of return TCP/IP packets arriving to the proxy server

Hi,

Mark Elsen wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>I have rather academic question. Can someone explain/clarify how the
>>proxy server identifies return TCP/IP packets in order to channel them
>>to the particular client processes.
>>...
>
>
> - Your model , on networking is negatively bended : in fact your question
> is irrelevant to 'basic' SQUID, because it sits that app. layer in the
> networking stack.
> Clients forward http requests to SQUID, which squid handles , for instance
> cached or not, in the latter case contacting the remote webserver and fetching
> the requested object.
> This could even be done , with any transport/networking implementation, and
> must be seen separated from the app. layer.
>
> Transparant proxy-ing may be an exception, indeed, but the consequences of
> not obeying the network-layered-model has many possible caveats.
>
OK, thanks for your answer.

Regards,

V. Nezval

>
> M.
>
Received on Thu Feb 16 2006 - 02:09:29 MST