Re: [squid-users] Poor mans static CDN

Chris Robertson wrote:
> beachie_at_tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: crobertson_at_gci.net
>>> Date: 26/01/2010 0:24 To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
>>> Subj: Re: [squid-users] Poor mans static CDN
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>> A simple redirect program that strips a leading "cache." from the
>>> requested domain name will give you the flexibility to do this.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for responding Chris.
>>
>> So now I have the following config:
>>
>> http_port external-iip2:80 vhost defaultsite=blog.tld
>> cache_peer blog.tld parent 80 0 no-query originserver login=PASS
>> url_rewrite_program /etc/squid/r.pl
>>
>> r.pl does a simple substitution s/cache.blog.tld/blog.tld/i and
>> appears to be working
>>
>> clientRedirectDone: 'http://cache.blog.tld/?9834733' result=http:
>> //blog.tld/?9834733 << [check]
>>
>> But the debug shows the request being build with the cache hostname.
>>
>> httpBuildRequestHeader: Host: cache.blog.tld
>> httpBuildRequestHeader: User-Agent: ...
>> ...
>> Packet capture:
>> GET /?9834733 HTTP/1.0
>> Host: cache.blog.tld
>>
>> Any more ideas?
>>
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/url_rewrite_host_header/
>
> Should be "on" by default, so I didn't mention it originally.

I believe the whole rewriter part is the same as setting the
forcedomain=blog.tld option on the cache_peer line.

If that works it will be a lot more efficient than a redirector ever can.

Amos

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