Re: [squid-users] New to Squid and Linux

I'm trying to use SSH to tunnel my traffic to the machine that is
running squid. The machines are not on the same network.

Michael

Quoting Christoph Haas <email@christoph-haas.de>:

> On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:46, mjmcgraw@wackyonline.com wrote:
>> Now it works from the local machine that is actually running squid,
>> but when I try to SSH using Putty into the squid host I get nothing. I
>> am forwarding port 3128 with Putty and setting the brower to use
>> localhost:3128 for proxy.
>
> Just point your browser to the proxy server on port 3128. SSH is not
> needed.
>
>> Maybe I'm understanding this wrong but I thought if I used SSH to
>> connect to the squid host it would appear as a local connection and
>> the acl for localhost for work.
>
> SSH supports port forwarding. But that's surely not the normal mode of
> operation and proxy surfing.
>
> I hope it's clear that Squid is a HTTP proxy which is not at all connected
> to SSH.
>
> Christoph
>
Received on Thu Aug 03 2006 - 09:08:11 MDT