Thanks, A quick HOWTO, and one more quick question

        First I would like to say TAHNK YOU, to all the helpfulk list members
        that helped me get my squid server working, behind the corporate SOCKS
        firewll. I am afraid I have lost the names of most of the people that
        were so helpful :(- One of them was Henrik Nordstrom, but there were
        several other key people who helped me to understand how to get it
        working, and shared pieces of thier squid.conf with me.

        Thank you ver much!

        Now th quich HOWTO.

        Getting a squid instance runing behined a corporate SOCKS firewall

        In my case I need to send queries to the firewall for all sites outside
        the corporate network. DNS queris could be resolved directy.

        All that was really required in the end was to get SOCKS compiled and
        set up, using lynx to test it. Don't forget to set the envirnment
        variabe telling lynx to use a proxy.

        Then point squid to the SOCKS firweall as a parent cache:

        cache_peer fw.westvaco.con parent 1080 0 no-query default
        Then just use runsocks to run squid.

        That's really all there is to it.

        Now the question. It's really probably a netscape question, but I
        figure you experts will know the answer. We are using Netscape's
        automatic proxying, to determine wheter to call the SOCKS server or go
        direct. I would like to change this to calling the squid server instead
        for outside requests. Heres the appropriate entry in the proxy.pac
        file:

        return "SOCKS 170.85.17.10:1080; DIRECT"

        I want to change this to call the squid sever 170.86.108.109, but not
        use SOCKS. I have tride:

        return "170.85.109.109:3218; DIRECT"

        and

        return "HTTP 170.85.109.109:3218; DIRECT"

        but neither one works.

        Can some kind soul give me the corect syntax here?

        Thanks, again for all the help.

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Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    843-745-3154
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