Re: [squid-users] "Bypassing" Squid

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:54:25PM +1300, Amos Jeffries (squid3_at_treenet.co.nz) wrote:
> You have the general idea of how to prevent things being re-used
> form disk (a disk file will likely still be opened for backing the
> RAM in-transit copy).
>
> There are two problems though:
> 1) each ACL name can only have one type. You need one for
> urlpath_regex and anther one for the rep_mime_type
>
> 2) the rep_mime_type being a *reply* mime type will not match on
> requests when decision is made whether to open a file and store the
> future data directly.
>
> I'm still wondering though why you want to do this? all the media
> types which can be proxied by Squid are potentially cacheable for a
> great bandwidth/speed savings. The non-cacheable ones will get
> discarded anyway.

I am thinking of it like in "iptable terms".
Assume iptable finds a certain type of package and I placed a rule e.g. "-A eth0_input -p tcp --sport 993 -j ACCEPT" the packet is let through without further bothering anything, it is basically handed on and if this is a router, its handed over to the next interface with NO file on disk, not logged ... no trace whatsoever.

So, if I as a system administrator, dont care about media packages (radio) and everyone listens to different radio station anyway

 * I like people who smile at work and hum to their music ;-)
 * I have ample bandwith
 * caching of packages that are not used again is useless
 * logging is useless because I am really not interested seeing them in the logs because I can "hear" them anyway ;-)

so all I want squid to just simply accept it without doing anything to it "aka -j ACCEPT", not even logging it.

Hence my question(s).

Jobst

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