Re: Blocked ports in squid.conf

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 04:33:14 +0000

Simon Dray wrote:

> Greeting Squid Guru's
> I have a question I hope some one can
> answer. I have had a request for access to a web site which uses a defined
> port i.e. www.something.com:591/something/else. Squid blocks this port. My
> question is do I tell the user tough you cant access the port through the
> proxy and make some other arrangement or do I change the safe ports acl to
> allow access to this port or there some horrible reason why I shouldn't.

Actually, I would say that this port can be safely added. It's a duly
registered port with the IANA, and is used for specialised HTTP access.

D
Received on Thu Jan 20 2000 - 21:44:23 MST

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