Re: [squid-users] Re: Force connection to squid

On 07/01/11 15:54, mpnordland wrote:
> The tricky thing is, is that this is all on one computer, squid is a
> proxy for the computer it is installed on, the idea of it all is to
> track the urls that the users visit. Authentication is necessary so that
> one user's log isn't mixed with another's. And just so you know, this
> isn't spyware.
>

Not much difference to a proxy on a router. Just use the user-PID
instead of source client IP in your firewall rules around port 80.
For example the squid user ID is allowed port 80 access but all others
are not. WPAD is used to point at 127.0.0.1 as the proxy IP.

And yes WPAD and the *nix global http_proxy environment variable are the
only ways to get authentication in a proxy without configuring it
directly into the browser.

Amos

-- 
Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.10
   Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.4