Re: heuristic for server names

Joe Laffey wrote:

> Or, if this functionality were added to Squid there could be a setting in
> the form of "www.*.com" or "www.*.com.au" that would add whatever the
> sysadmin wanted to existing URLs. Sure this wouldn't get everything right
> because there will be domain names that are different from this default.
> It would however get many correct, which is more than it is doing now.

This domain magic is possible to do from a redirector.

Trap domainless addresses. If it isn't a known intranet address then use
any heuristics to rewrite the address to an internet address and return
it as a browser redirect. (don't do a silent rewrite, it will open
security problems in some browsers, and cause user confusion)

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker