Re: [squid-users] Proxying unwanted request

Mark Gibson wrote:
> It looks like my squid instance is being used as a proxy, and I don't
> want it to. I see many instances in access.log like this:
>
> 4.79.247.67 - - [09/Aug/2006:12:47:21 -0400] "GET
> http://216.239.59.147/search? HTTP/1.0" 200 15190 TCP_MISS:DIRECT
>
> I thought I eliminated the ability to do this in my config file.
Why do you think this? What steps did you take?
> To test this, I try to do this:
>
> $ http_proxy=http://mysite.com wget http://216.239.59.147/search?
> --10:48:32-- http://216.239.59.147/search?
> => `search'
> Resolving mysite.com... xx.xx.124.205
> Connecting to mysite.com|xx.xx.124.205|:80... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 10:48:32 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>
> This makes it look like proxying is denied, yet the access.log entry
> above says differently. Can someone point me in the right direction
> to find out why this is happening?

All that proves is the host that you tried the test from is denied
proxy. Perhaps http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl would be a
good start... If that's not enough, share your squid.conf (either on
list or off).

Chris
Received on Wed Aug 09 2006 - 13:08:55 MDT