Re: [squid-users] New to Squid and Linux

On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:46, mjmcgraw@wackyonline.com wrote:
> Now it works from the local machine that is actually running squid,
> but when I try to SSH using Putty into the squid host I get nothing. I
> am forwarding port 3128 with Putty and setting the brower to use
> localhost:3128 for proxy.

Just point your browser to the proxy server on port 3128. SSH is not
needed.

> Maybe I'm understanding this wrong but I thought if I used SSH to
> connect to the squid host it would appear as a local connection and
> the acl for localhost for work.

SSH supports port forwarding. But that's surely not the normal mode of
operation and proxy surfing.

I hope it's clear that Squid is a HTTP proxy which is not at all connected
to SSH.

 Christoph
Received on Thu Aug 03 2006 - 08:58:35 MDT