Re: [squid-users] Neophyte help - using squid to choose another proxy server...or not

Philip Kaplan wrote:
> I am not a squid user...yet...but I may be if it can do what I need.
> Can any of you kind souls tell if the following is possible...and not
> extremely difficult to setup by a neophyte:
>
>
> What I need:
>
> - Squid acts as a proxy server for HTTP traffic. It accepts HTTP
> traffic and forwards the traffic to either:
>
> 1) HTTP proxy server A if the destination host in the URL matches a
> list of local values
>
> 2) HTTP proxy server B if the destination host in the URL matches a
> different list of local values
>
> 3) the actual destination if the destination host in the URL is
> unmatched in either list
>
>
> ...where proxy A and B are other proxy servers servicing my network
> (and out of my control).
>
>
> This scheme has nothing to do with client IPs. It's all about the
> destination. I have an application that will call web services on a
> range of different servers and some of the web service calls must go
> through proxy A, others must go through proxy B, and some must be
> direct (i.e., no other proxy)...and the application can either handle
> no proxy or one proxy. I would like to install squid on the same box
> and point my application to 127.0.0.1 for its proxy server and let
> squid handle the rest.
>
> Thanks!

Yes it is possible. Fairly easy in fact.
You need to lookup the types of ACL available, cache_peer,
cache_peer_access, always_direct, and never_direct directives.
The directives combine with ACL to route requests individually to
certain sources, including direct.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/cfgman/

Amos

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