Re: [squid-users] RE:Localhost

From: Simon Allenby <simona@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:02:08 +0100

>Surely squid is smart enough to recognise the fact that when it get a
>request for localhost it doesn't mean return it's own web pages ie
>A user types in 127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/cachemgr.cgi it returns the cache manager
>interface......

Squid is simply fulfilling the request it sees when it arrives. The client
asked for 127.0.0.1, Squid will serve from 127.0.0.1. If the client software
isn't smart enough to know that connections to localhost shouldn't be sent
to a proxy, I don't see it as a Squid problem.

Simon

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