Re: [squid-users] proxy acceleration to single hosts with multiple listening ports

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:15:24 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 24 May 2005, thijn wrote:

> For years i have been using the apache proxy directives to forward
> traffic to various webservers (apaches & tomcats).
> These webservers run on various non default ports, it is not possible to
> let all of them listen on the same port as defined in squid.conf ,or at
> least run on the same port as the accelerated port

It is possible.

> Now the acceleration mechanisme works for default stuff.
> for example if a user would use the following URL's in their browsers.
> www.example.org > www.trueserver.org (works)
> www.example.org:8080 > www.trueserver.org:8080 (works)
>
> but
> www.example.org > www.trueserver.org:57007 is not working.

In an accelerator you do this either witn an redirector rewriting the
accelerated URL adding the correct port number or by cache_peer based
forwarding of the requests.

I can also recommend looking into the related (commercial) offerings by
MARA Systems.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 22:15:26 MDT

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