Re: %la and intercepted connections

On 20/05/11 04:00, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> %la logs the destination address of the HTTP client connection. For
> regular requests, this is the http_port address as promised by our
> squid.conf documentation quoted below. For intercepted requests, it
> appears to be the origin server address because that is where the
> connection was going.
>
>> <A Server IP address or peer name
>> la Local IP address (http_port)
>> lp Local port number (http_port)
>> <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
>> <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
>
>
> Should we fix documentation (i.e., warn the admin that %la logs origin
> server addresses for intercepted requests) or implementation (i.e., log
> the actual local address used by Squid to intercept the request)?

IMO. Implementation. With NAT there is no "local" IP:port. The more we
can make that clear the better.

NP: This will need some release notes. If the change to implementation
is small and easy as I expect it will, this will be able to go into 3.1.

>
> I am guessing the same question applies to %lp.
>

Yes.

Amos

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