Re: [squid-users] Virus Scanning Appliance

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 22.51, Jim Richey wrote:

> If any object is already cached locally then it should be retrieved
> from the local cache.

Default.

> If any object is cached on a sibling then it should be retrieved
> from the sibling.

Default.

> If an object is in the virusscan ACL and is not cached then
> retrieve it through the virus scan appliance.
>
> If an object is not in the virusscan ACL and is not cached then
> retrieve it from the origin server.

See cache_peer, never/always_direct and cache_peer_access.

> Is this possible? I've played around with always_direct and
> never_direct, but just can't seem to get it to work.

It is possible, assuming the virus scanner can be addressed as a peer
proxy by Squid.

Regards
Henrik

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