[squid-users] Re: Proxy Selection Problem

Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

> (1) Companies A, B, and C are working on a joint project.
> (2) Company A is the lead for the joint project and is responsible
> for maintaining a web-accessible database of information about
> the project that is accessible to all team members.
> (3) Private, dedicated links have been established between A, B,
> and C to allow access to the database.
> (4) The web server for the database is only accessible through the
> private network connection and is not visible to the Internet.
> (5) Company B installs a Squid proxy server to provide restricted
> access to the web server at company A.
> (6) All HTTP requests for PROJECT.A.COM need to be forwarded to
> this Squid proxy server while all other HTTP requests for A.COM
> are forwarded to the default proxy server that provides Internet
> access.

This can be done easily with a proxy auto-config script. See the Squid FAQ
for more details:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.2

Despite the title of the section, it works with most browsers, not just
Netscape.

Adam
Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 18:30:09 MDT