[squid-users] Re: Reverse proxy to bypass government's proxy !!!

Hi all,
Please do you have the answer for this? Sorry if my question was silly
but I really didn't find the answer, does squid -as a reverse proxy-
only do a redirection instead of serving the content to the user?

Regards,

On 24/12/2007, AN@S <anas.marrawi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to use squid as a reverse proxy. My situation is that I'm from
> a country that the government here block websites !
> They recently blocked a website that is very important for my friends
> and me, and it does not function probably with proxy bypassing
> websites that uses scripts like CGIProxy or Phproxy.
> The good thing is that I have a dedicated server in the United States.
> I don't have prior experience with squid, I followed some tutorials
> but failed to do the following scenario:
>
> A user requests newdomain.com (which is registered by me and
> connected to my server) ---> Squid will get the content of
> www.theblockedwebsite.com and deliver it to the end user ---> The
> browser's URL remains newdomain.com because if changed the user will
> get the ugly "Access Denied" page.
>
> I did the following configuration:
>
> ------------------
>
> http_port 80 # Port of Squid proxy
> httpd_accel_host xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of web server I need to reach
> httpd_accel_port 80 # Port of web server
> httpd_accel_single_host on
> httpd_accel_with_proxy off
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
>
> ------------------
>
> When I request newdomain.com, squid redirects me to
> theblockedwebsite.com, the URL in the URL bar becomes
> theblockedwebsite.com and I still get the ugly "access denied" message
> !
> So squid here only did a redirection from my server to the other
> blocked website, while I thought squid will (serve) the website then
> deliver it to the end user without passing thruogh the government's
> proxy!
>
> What do you suggest?
> Your help is highly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
>

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