RE: [squid-users] reverse proxy for squid2.5.10

fre 2007-03-09 klockan 11:08 +0800 skrev Peña, Botp:

> imho, if squid is to be a very flexible and powerful reverse proxy, i'd suggest that it be a separate program/daemon or maybe a separate squid-reverse.conf perhaps.

Save for the need of rewriting stuff most of the questions seen in
reverse proxying is the same in complex forward proxy setups and what
helps one helps the other.. and yes the squid configuration can be
improved significantly to make request routing much easier. The steps
taken in 2.6 is just a miniature step forward allowing reverse proxying
to benefit from the request routing options already available.

But using Squid pretty much assumes there is no need for rewriting, only
"routing" (selecting which server the request should be sent to, without
altering the request or response as such). This isn't very likely to
change much unless one is willing to combine Squid with an ICAP server
doing the heavy part of the rewrites..

Regards
Henrik