Re: redirector to proxy autoconfig (GET / HTTP/1.0)

>Michael Dean wrote:
>>
>> hi ppl
>>
>> is it possible to redirect a plain GET request say
>>
>> GET / HTTP/1.0
>>
>> to another url?? ... ie. I have a redirecting perl script running with the
>> line ...
>>
>> s,^/$,http://proxycfg:8080/,g
>>
>> so that it tries to redirect to the proxycfg host that will spit back the
>> proxy autoconfig for web clients using proxy autoconfig ...
>>
>> what I've tried thus far doesn't work.
>>
>> has anyone tried to do this sort of thing already? or does squid refuse
>> the URL that is requested before it gets to the redirector stage.
>>
>> any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> -- Michael Dean
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>
>I think it _should_ be rejected at the first level parsing step before
>being passed to a redirector. I'm also fairly sure that it happens
>_after_ the redirector in squid 1.1.x (because I had a redirector crash
>from an unexpected hostless url). Squid2.x? Not sure. Pick a number.
>
>D

if that's the case, why not setup your squid as a proxy and accelerater?

set up the accelleration for the machine with the proxy.pac, and then
slip the redirector in....

Regards
Karl
=8)
Received on Wed Apr 07 1999 - 04:51:22 MDT