Re: [squid-users] initializing https proxy context

The problem is gaining access to the pf device. Uhm, its /dev/pf
isn't it or something? Squid needs to be run with enough permission
to open the pf device.

Start Squid as root.

Adrian

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008, Dave wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a new squid 3.0 proxy running in transparent mode on FreeBSD.
> This was an upgrade from squid2, done via ports.
> I've created a squid.conf file but when i parse it i get the msg:
> "initializing https proxy context". There's no indication of warning or
> error, and starting squid works, it shows up in the process list. However,
> trying to get to a site gives an access denied msg that i'm not sure is
> related to the https error or another problem:
> "While trying to retrieve the url /"
>
> that's strange, i was trying to get to google. The issues suggested were
> Missing or incorrect access protocol, i punched in the full address
> http://www.google.com, missing hostname, illegal double escape in the path,
> and illegal characters in the hostname, underscores are not allowed.
>
> In my logs i have:
>
> access.log:
> 10/Jan/2008 16:36:29 1 192.168.0.2 NONE/400 1808 GET / - NONE/-
> text/html
> cache.log:
> 2008/01/10 16:36:29| clientNatLookup: PF open failed: (13) Permission denied
>
> The msg from cache.log i don't get, pf is running, and this worked before.
> Access.log seems to support what the error msg says.
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

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