[TriLUG] [Fwd: [TAA-NC Discussion] [OT}: help with Squid]

Fri Jun 24 08:56:55 EDT 2005

Dan,

You can tell squid *not* to proxy for certain websites.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-4.html#ss4.19

   use the always_direct access list.

   For example, if you want Squid to connect directly
   to hotmail.com servers, you can use these lines in
   your config file:

      acl hotmail dstdomain .hotmail.com
      always_direct allow hotmail

This may also be helpful:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.16

  ``Hot Mail'' is proxy-unfriendly and requires all requests
   to come from the same IP address. You can fix this by adding
   to your squid.conf:

       hierarchy_stoplist hotmail.com

Good Luck!

Jon Carnes

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 06:06, Dan wrote:
> for the $COMPANY internal network I am using Squid 2.5/STABLE5 on
> FreeBSD 4.9... it works really well except for when it doesn't. There
> seems to be some specific MS related things it just doesn't handle.
> 
> The latest is an external web site... if I go to the page using the
> proxy I get a login box and then am redirected to a 'temporarily under
> construction' page.  If I turn off the proxy I get the real support
> page.  The page source is this (though a lot more than this is displayed):
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="-1">
> <TITLE>bioMérieux: Basic Kit</TITLE>
> 
> <LINK href="opmaak.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
> </HEAD>
> 
> <FRAMESET cols="120,*" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" border="0">
>     <FRAME src="BasicKit_buttons.asp" name="buttons" framespacing="0"
> noresize scrolling="NO" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
>     <FRAME src="BasicKit_home.asp" name="main" framespacing="0" noresize
> marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
>     <noframes>
>     <body>
> 	    <p>This web page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support
> them.</p>
>     </BODY>
> 
>     </noframes>
> </FRAMESET>
> 
> </HTML>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> What are they doing to keep Squid from working?  Is it the frame src?
> Can I make squid happy with it?
> 
> Normal users are forced to use the proxy so turning it off for this
> website is not an option.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Monjar
> 