Re: [squid-users] Incorrect HTTP GET request from squid

>>>> Frank Eibisch <feibisch@estec.net> 07/16/02 06:19pm >>>
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>On Tuesday 16 July 2002 09:12, Eric Lawson wrote:
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>> the cache server. Why doesn't the cache server just send the same GET
>> request (GET http://www.smh.com.au/ HTTP/1.0) that my browser is sending?
>> Instead of GET / HTTP/1.0
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>Because it does not have to. If you try to fetch http://www.smh.com.au you
>first get the IP-address of www.smh.com.au, which is 203.26.51.42 for me.
>Then you connect to that server at port 80. The rest of the request is
>getting a local file from the server. And because you want to fetch the
>"DocumentRoot" of that server, the correct line is "GET /". Additional the
>Host-Header is to distinguish several virtual hosts on the same ip. So squid
>does behave correct here.
>
>Your problem is strange, indeed. Have you turned on accelerator mode or
>redirection? What about Hendriks question about transparent proxy?
>

But I don't want to get the document root from the 203.26.51.42 ip address. Because the document root is the f2.com.au page. Not the smh.com.au page.

Accelarator mode is off, and there is no redirection. As I replied to Hendrik's question. This box is configured as a standard proxy, not a transparent one.

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