Re: [squid-users] Workaround For CGI Scripts

From: Christoph Haas <email@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:17:31 +0200

On Monday 04 September 2006 14:49, beno wrote:
> Somewhere in the documentation I copied the following:
>
> Squid is written only as a high-performance proxy server, so there is no
> way for it to function as a web server, since Squid has no support for
> reading files from a local disk, running CGI scripts and so forth. There
> is, however, a workaround.
>
> I would like to know what that workaround is, because I don't use
> Apache, and don't want to install it just for the sake of CGI scripts if
> I can avoid that.

You are not giving much information on what you expect. Squid is indeed not
a web server. Why do expect a proxy to run CGI scripts? It doesn't. If you
need that, install a web server.

 Christoph
Received on Mon Sep 04 2006 - 07:18:08 MDT

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