Re: [squid-users] Reverse proxy

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:48:36 +0100

Silmar wrote:
>
> > > So the question is which port shouldn't be blocked on firewall between
> proxy
> > > and internal http server?
> >
> > The port that the internal http server is listening on.
>
> It's port using which squid connects to internal server.
> But which port is used when internal server answers?

Squid will accept queries on it's http_port, and forward it to the
server on port 80.

The source port used by Squid when forwarding requests is a "random"
high port.

The server replies from the same port it was contacted on. It must as
the communication is using TCP.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 06:13:00 MST

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