Re: DIRECT for local networks

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:17:45PM +0100, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
> Is it possible to have squid tell the browser to DIRECT-ly fetch a page
> off certain server, instead of getting it from squid?
> This is because we a few network addresses which are local and we don't
> want them to be cached/fetched through the proxy... so if a browser request
> a page in 212.206.24.0/32, it should directly contact that host instead of
> squid doing this for the browser...

There isn't a way for the proxy to tell the browser "go away and try it
yourself", so you can't do it at this level.

> I know it's possible to do this with autoproxyconfig scripts, but I've
> heard that it's not reliable for all browser versions.

Those are still your best bet for Netscape and IE. With other browsers
you may be out of luck.

> Any suggestions? no_cache & always_direct don't really seem to do what i need.

No, but if the browser insists on going to your proxy, those are pretty
much the best you can do - you can at least make Squid go direct and
avoid caching.

  -- Clifton

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