Re: [squid-users] Squid with Oracle

Peter Harrison (C) wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have a new project here at work. Basically I need to
> know if Squid will proxy Oracle traffic

Basically no. Squid is an HTTP proxy.
Oracle must wrap its traffic into HTTP requests for Squid to have a chance.
I have no info on whether oracle can do that wrapping.

> and if it will understand LDAP.

Squid has auth helpers to do LDAP on _HTTP_ requests.

>
> For instance after LDAP answers and the client comes back with Server
> name(host of the DB, port and DB instance. Will proxy understand the
> DB Instance name ie Foobar? Will it be able to reach that instance or is
> it going to strip that info and the connection will fail?
>
>
> As well has anyone every used this to proxy Sybase?
>
> Peter C. Harrison
>

Amos

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