On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 18:20:15 +0300 (MSK), you wrote:
>If one connects to Squid and asks Squid to get itself, e.g
>"GET http://localhost:80 HTTP/1.0", Squid goes looping
>opening numerous connections to itself.
Nope, doesn't do it here (NOVM .17 & .18)
--[ .. ]--
Trying 195.200.12.9...
Connected to proxy.ftech.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://localhost HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 400 Cache Detected Error
Content-type: text/html
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>ERROR</H1>
<H2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</H2>
<HR>
<P>
While trying to retrieve the URL:
<A HREF="/">/</A>
<P>
The following error was encountered:
<UL>
<LI><STRONG>Invalid URL syntax</STRONG>
</UL>
<P>This means that:
<PRE>
Please double check it, or ask for assistance.
</PRE>
<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>
Generated by squid/1.NOVM.17@proxy2.ftech.net
</ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
--[ .. ]--
which version are you running?
[...]
>Today some unnamed hacker tried to get <http://localhost>
>and made my Squid loop again. So I added a news access list
>"url_regex ^http://localhost" and made the Squid deny such URLs.
Hopefully it'll only be our own users who can do this sort of trick
anyway (access limited to our own /19).
Mark
-- Mark Lowes <hamster@lspace.org> http://hamster.wibble.org/ Work : markl@ftech.net http://www.ftech.net/ Play : hamster@wibble.org http://www.wibble.org/ Procurator Odiosus Ex InfernisReceived on Thu Nov 27 1997 - 07:34:41 MST
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