Re: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues

From: Edward <edward@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:47:17 -0400

On the LAN, everything is working good.

but for the SAT, some pages are load.

What could be causing this problems?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
 
Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Wildey
St. Michael
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
To: <mcnatton@mindspring.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues

> Set up an apache server serving the PAC file, and then use the
> httpd_accel_host directive to tell Squid to forward HTTP server requests
> to this server.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid Hacker
>
>
> mcnatton@mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > Here's a situation we're facing and I'm curious if anyone has some
> > insight into how we might approach this problem.
> >
> > We currently have approximately 10,000 pcs, a very large portion of
> > which are configured in one of two ways.
> >
> > A. Netscape browsers with manual proxy servers set up for http and
> > https as proxy.host.net:8080
> > B. Netscape browsers with automatic proxy configuration with URL
> > setup as proxy.host.net:8080 (note they're the same).
> >
> > We're also in the process of changing from netscape admin-server and
> > netscape proxy server to apache and squid version 2.3.STABLE4 with
> > smartfilter extensions. All of this is running on Solaris 2.7.
> >
> > This setup runs fine when pointing to the netscape admin-server/proxy
> > server configuration.
> >
> > The problem I'm having is when I point one of the "automatic"
> > configured pcs to one of the boxes running SQUID. At startup, the
> > user receives a message saying the automatic configuration has failed
> > and on the squid server I see the following access.log entry.
> >
> > 10.49.0.145 - - [30/Apr/2001:16:28:40 -0400] "GET / HTTP/0.0" 400 1094
> > NONE:NONE
> >
> > >From the docs, it's clear that I need to provide a proxy.pac file
> > telling the users what their automatic configuration should be. The
> > problem I'm having is how to provide this info and provide
> > filtering/caching all from the same port?
> >
> > Having all the users change their configuration to point to another
> > port or host isn't an attractive option (120+ sites, 6000 pcs likely
> > to be touched). If I must do that, I'd much prefer to cut over to
> > transparent proxying so we don't face this problem again in the
> > future and it's trivial for the end users to reconfigure.
> >
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -- steve
>
>
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