RE: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues

What version of squid are you running, and can you include the configuration lines that you used to configure the reverse proxy settings?

Thanks,
     Dean Weimer
     Network Administrator
     Orscheln Management Co

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Welker [mailto:jan.welker_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:40 AM
To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues

I do have a webserver hosting the pac file. I set the default site to
be that webserver. I do not get it to work. I followed this manual:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Dean Weimer <dweimer_at_orscheln.com> wrote:
> You might try configuring squid as a reverse proxy for a web server actually hosting your proxy.pac file, I have never tried this, but I think it would work.
>
> Thanks,
> Dean Weimer
> Network Administrator
> Orscheln Management Co
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Welker [mailto:jan.welker_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:04 AM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Netscape to Squid conversion Issues
>
> Here's a situation we're facing and I'm curious if anyone has some
> insight into how we might approach this problem.
>
> We currently have approximately pcs, a very large portion of which
> are configured in one of two ways.
>
> A. Netscape browsers with manual proxy servers set up for http and
> https as proxy.host.net:8080
> B. Netscape browsers with automatic proxy configuration with URL setup
> as proxy.host.net:8080 (note they're the same).
>
> This setup runs fine when pointing to the netscape admin-server/proxy
> server configuration.
>
> The problem I'm having is when I point one of the "automatic"
> configured pcs to one of the boxes running SQUID. At startup, the user
> receives a message saying the automatic configuration has failed and
> on the squid server I see the following access.log entry.
>
> 10.49.0.145 - - [30/Apr/2001:16:28:40 -0400] "GET / HTTP/0.0" 400 1094 NONE:NONE
>
> From the docs, it's clear that I need to provide a proxy.pac file
> telling the users what their automatic configuration should be. The
> problem I'm having is how to provide this info and provide
> filtering/caching all from the same port?
>
> Having all the users change their configuration to point to another
> port or host isn't an attractive option (120+ sites, 6000 pcs likely
> to be touched). If I must do that, I'd much prefer to cut over to
> transparent proxying so we don't face this problem again in the future
> and it's trivial for the end users to reconfigure.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jan
>
Received on Tue Dec 09 2008 - 16:03:01 MST