Re: [squid-users] Question regarding squid and url's

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Jim Greene wrote:

> Hello,
> I am attempting to do the following:
> Type in http://10.0.0.1:3128/www.yahoo.com in my browser. I need to be able
> to access a site like that because of some software we will be using that
> does not have a proxy setting.
> That gives me an error about not being able to bring up /www.yahoo.com.
> Is there a different way of using the cache in the same manner? Or is there
> a way to filter out the initial / ? Thanks for your help.
> Jim G

Squid does not normally support this form of proxying. However,
it might work if you:

1) write the URL like this:

     http://10.0.0.1:3128/http://www.yahoo.com

2) write a Squid redirctor program that removes the leading slash from
   certain requests and changes "/http://" into "http://".

Duane W.
Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 09:55:56 MST