Re: I need to put a WebSense proxy as a parent of a squid proxy, possible?

I think you need to set prefer_direct (on|off) as well. The default is that
it will prefer to go direct.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Fernando Medina Jr. <fmedina1@dla.co.cr>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:33 PM
Subject: I need to put a WebSense proxy as a parent of a squid proxy,
possible?

> Headquarters has recently decide to put a WebSense (content filtering)
> proxy up. We have out Internet coenctivity throught them, so we now
> must go through that proxy. I ahev about 500 machines pointing at our
> squid 2.2STABLE2 proxy and would not like to reconfigure every machine
> to point directly at Websense machine port 8080, because it does not do
> caching. Can I tell squid to go through that machine on port 8080 for
> http? I tried
>
> cache_peer websense.mydomain parent 8080 3130 no-query
>
> but I still get rhough to pages I shoudl not, and access.log shows that
> squid tried to connect to websens but had a miss and then went directly
> to origin server. This won't work soon, because headquarters will only
> allow http access through the firewall from the websense machine's IP
> adress. Can someone help me out? thanks,
>
>
> --
> Fernando Medina Jr.
> <fmedina1@dla.co.cr>
> ICQ 102329
> San Jose, Costa Rica
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 00:14:53 MDT