Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:13:37 +1000 From: "Andrew" <andrew@iaccess.com.au> To: "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ipfilter and transproxy Message-ID: <00ff01bd6cba$549af440$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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Thanks for that :) The reason why it is supposed to work, is because i use transproxy. This program is supposed to sit on port 80 and use ipfilter to transfer http requests to port 8080 (squid). But it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Any ideas? Thanks again Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Andrew <andrew@iaccess.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 6:15 PM Subject: Re: ipfilter and transproxy >Hi, > >If your redirecting people's WEB requests to Squid's proxy port - I'm not >too sure this is going to work... > >Imagine - A user want to go to a web page, so they key in >'www.somewhere.com', this gets resolved to an IP address - the browser then >connects to that IP address and says "Give me URL:/" (i.e. the base)... > >The URL of :/ as you've seen doesn't mean anything to Squid which expects a >nice proxy-formatted URL / request on it's proxy port... > >If your doing this for 1 Web site, then you should look at squid's 'http >accelerator' options... > >If your doing it for multiple sites - you might have to remind us of what >your trying to acheive... It may not be possible... :-( > >Regards, > >Karl Pielorz > >> Andrew wrote: >> >> It's me again :) >> >> I've managed to get ipfilter and transproxy working, but now when it >> redirects traffic to port 8080, squid complains like this: >> >> 98/04/20 17:40:05| ERR_INVALID_URL: / >> >> any ideas? >> >> Thanks again >> Andrew Specht >> System Administrator >> Internet Access Australia > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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