Re: [squid-users] Puzzled by v2.5 ChangeLog entry

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:16 pm, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002, Steve Snyder wrote:
> > I'm puzzled by an entry in the Squid v2.5 ChangeLog:
> >
> > - Added support for netfilter in linux-2.4. This allows
> > transparent proxy connections to function correctly in the absence of
> > a Host: header. This requires --enable-linux-netfilter to be passed
> > through to configure. (Evan Jones)
> >
> > Huh? I am currently using a transparent config of v2.4 with Linux's
> > netfilter. How does this change effect my current use of Squid? Put
> > another way, what behavioral changes in Squid will I see when I
> > upgrade from 2.4 to 2.5?
>
> I'm pretty sure that I added the above option to squid-2.4.
> It affects squids' ability to nab the real destination IP of the
> intercepted connection, so it can use it if a Host: header or
> hostname part of the URL isn't supplied.
>
> Most of the time you won't notice it, but for larger ISP type setups,
> people have noted that the host component isn't always sent in the
> HTTP request, and squid then basically has no idea where to send the
> request to.

Oh, ok. It must be an error that it appears in the v2.5 change log
(http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/ChangeLog.txt).

Thanks.
Received on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 20:37:37 MST