RE: [squid-users] Local Servers Question

Thanks Henrik!

I actually received my answer earlier today. I didn't completely catch
his name due to a noisy environment, but the assistance was much
appreciated, and I do have things functioning almost the way I want.
Unfortunately, the rest is beyond my control.

Thanks again!

Scott Wrosch
email swrosch@marketingassociates.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:19 PM
> To: Scott Wrosch
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Local Servers Question
>
> Scott Wrosch wrote:
>
> > Is there a way in Squid (and I may have missed it if there, because
I
> > can't find it) to have it tell the client that the server that it's
> > trying to request is a local server, and that it shouldn't use the
> > proxy? Kind of like that little check box in Internet Explorer.
>
> Nope.
>
> If the client has sent the request to the proxy the proxy either has
to
> process the request, or give an error back to the user.
>
> > Or, if not, is there a way (whether it be through a batch file or a
> > server script or something) to set it so that IE is automatically
> > configured to bypass the proxy for a specific site?
>
> Sure. Many ways. Which one is least hard to implement depends heavily
on
> your environment.
>
> If the browsers are already configured to use a proxy configuration
> script then just update the script with instructions on what do do on
> requests for the domain.
>
> If not you will need to find some way to have a small program executed
> on all client stations to reconfigure the browser proxy settings. This
> can be run from a domain logon script or similar if your users are
> logging on to a domain.
>
> Alternatively you can set up access controls in the proxy denying
access
> to the domain and return an error with instructions on the
> reconfigurations needed instructing the user how to make the needed
> changes.
>
> If you have a distributed administration framework such as SMS or
> anything similar then the automatic change of the client
configurations
> may be possible to do via this also.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Mar 13 2003 - 14:25:48 MST