Re: redirecting, and parseing for content

David Flynn wrote:

> 1. It seems that squid does not do an ident query for each request from
> the same ip ... and sometimes remembers what it was, and sometimes forgets
> ... skrewing up my redirector ... i am getting arround that by having to
> implemtnet some SMB calls to identify the user on the machine. .. Is this a
> known problem with ident ? or could it be my client ?

Squid only waits for the ident to complete if so required by http_access
processing.

> 2. I would like to do some transparent redirecting ... ie that the
> client is not told that the page it is recieving is differet to that it
> wants ... ie not changing the url the client displays for a banned page to
> that of the redirected page ... any ideas ... or am i just beeing silly
> putting the 301: or 302: in the redirect ?

Without a redirect code in the returned URL, squid will fetch the
rewritten URL. With a redirect code squid will send a redirect message
to the browser.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker