RE: [squid-users] Conditional proxy

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> From: Noceg [mailto:jclark_at_tigilinea.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 23 februari 2010 19:16
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Conditional proxy
>
>
> First, I am very new to proxy servers and Squid. My company has just
> been acquired and we are connected through a hardware VPN to their
> offices. We are able to get to all of their webpages that are held
> locally to them. We have an issue connecting to an off site web page
> that requires all requests to come from our parent companies IP
> address.
>
> We can access the site by adding the parent companies proxy settings
> into IE, but we would like to avoid that because we don't want all
> Internet traffic to go over the VPN. I have squid up and running on a
> single NIC server, but what I want it to do is set it up with
> conditional proxy settings so that when my users make requests, the
> Squid server will send traffic through our Internet connection unless
> they need access to this secured website, those requests will be sent
> over the VPN and through the parent companies Inernet connection.
>
> we are using FoxyProxy on Firefox to accomplish this, but we will be
> rolling access to this site to all users and was hoping that Squid
> would work for us.
>
> Please let me know if this is possible and if you can direct me how to
> do it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps you can use a cache_peer definition for that:

cache_peer 10.1.2.3 parent 80 0 no-query originserver name=server_x login=PASS
cache_peer_domain server_x dstdomain verysecure.contoso.com

But I have little experience in that area, I mostly work with reverse proxies..

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