RE: [squid-users] squid does NOT log icq connections

From: Elsen Marc <elsen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:22:53 +0100

>
>
> Hi, dear squid-cache developers!
> I am excited of the programm, that really works as I want!
> Of course I mean squid daemon.
> But there is a little problem.
> I use a model when users from my lan may go through proxy only having
> been authenticated. I need to get statistics per user for ALL traffic
> transferred through the cache.
> Some of users use icq and of course through squid. I don't leave them
> chance to go other way. That works fine, but squid does NOT log these
> connections as it logs other connections, made by the CONNECT method.
> Say I want to go to www.nic.ru/whois/ and want to get an info
> for sasha.ru domain. EVERY connection to this service is logged.
> But when loggin into icq - only one entry is in the access.log:
>
> 1106896841.651 636 10.7.0.68 TCP_MISS/000 347 CONNECT
> login.icq.com:443 lena FIRST_UP_PARENT/10.0.0.78 -
>
> Other connections that express real traffic are absent in the log.
>
> My question is WHY.
> May be something is misconfigured?
> So I am sending a copy of my squid.conf file
>
> Of course I know that proxy must NOT cache any ssl connections
> by the reason it doesn't understand this content. But it it
> seems to me
> it MUST log all events of such a type, that is size, username
> an so on.
 
  Which type ?

  Any further app. data is from then on
  send into the 'CONNECT pipe' , and is beyond squid's interest
  and hence not logged (as you state).

  Whereas for subsequent http connections from browsers you will
  have a log entry for each request (indeed).

  M.
Received on Mon Jan 31 2005 - 08:24:26 MST

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