Re: Redirect local requests to custom error page

On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:38:17AM +0100, Harf Zatschler wrote:

> We're trying to make people use our autoconfigure .pac's for their
> browsers.
> These contain the directive that browsers bypass the squid cache for the
>
> local .ic.ac.uk - domain. If however someone does ask squid for a page
> in the .ic.ac.uk domain we want them to get some html page reminding
> people to use the autoconfiguration. The question is: how do we go about
>
> doing this
> One idea I had was to set up a tiny second cache which is forced as
> parent for .ic.ac.uk - this second cache would then deny all access and
> we would replace the normal error-html with our own message.
> There must be a better way to do this?

Deny access to pages within ic.ac.uk using http_access and an acl and then
use the deny_info directive to return a custom error page with your message
on. You don't need two caches.

Cheers,

Chris

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