RE: [squid-users] 3rd try: opposite direction of redirect -- filterpointer?

> -----Original Message-----
> > I want to implement a filter on incoming HTTP requests on the
> squid-host before
> > it goes to the client. I actually want both directions, but
> outgoing requests
> > seem to be handled by the built-in 'redirect' feature (?).
> >
> > I'm probably just not seeing it, but how do I do the equivalent of
> redirect but
> > on
> > an incoming http stream?
> >
> > Doc pointer or example?
>
> I think you've not had an answer, because in HTTP your request does not
> make sense.
>
> HTTP responses have the address they come from as a read only property -
> you can't redirect them. Redirection only applies as a response in it's
> own right, or as rewriting, where squid gets the new response itself.
>
> Perhaps you can describe what you want to accomplish a bit more.

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The redirect feature, as I understand it, allows a client's ouptput
to be redirected to an external application before it is given to squid to
to fetch an answer.  Yes?
Next, we would exect output from a target server (or from squid if it is cached,
but assuming not) which I want to "redirect" to an external application before
giving the output to squid for storage and passing on to the real client.
Normal case looks like:
1) client "GET content" from Server
2) Server sends response over same TCP session to client.
(server answer ----> client)
	or, more explicitly, with squid, #2 looks like:
[server---->]squid---->client
	I want:
[server---->"filter-app"---->]squid---->client
So if I understand redirect, it  looks like:
client---->"redirect-app"------>squid[------>server]
I want to filter the content from the "sender" before it is processed by
squid.
Thanks for responding -- wasn't even sure my prior emails posted correctly.
-linda