Re: [squid-users] problem using squid as proxy server to load balance reverse-proxies

On 11/02/11 19:25, Sri Rao wrote:
> Hi Amos,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
>>>
>>> I am trying to setup squid as a ssl proxy to load balance btwn
>>> reverse-proxies. I believe the config is right but what is happening
>>
>> What you have setup is a forward proxy load balancer which only permits
>> management and binary-over-HTTP tunneled traffic from its localhost machine
>> IP.
>
> That is actually what I want. I want to do binary-over-HTTP from the
> localhost to the reverse-proxy servers. When the forward proxy tries
> to connect to the origin server directly it does a tunnelConnect but
> even though I have set originserver for the cache_peers it seems to
> just forward the CONNECT instead of doing a tunnelConnect. I thought
> originserver should force squid to treat the cache_peers as if they
> were web servers?

It should. You seem to have found a bug there. I've added a fix for that
now.

A secondary problem in your config was "never_direct allow sp_test" -
since sp_test always matches direct tunnel setup (tunnelConnect) is not
permitted.

Amos

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