Re: [squid-users] Problem with transparent proxy

Someone hasn't read the FAQ on transparent proxying. You have not
configured Squid to act as a transparent proxy. You may also have
forgotten to include the --enable-net-filter when building Squid.

Sven Schuster wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have setup a transparent proxy on a linux box, with usual
> iptables-redirection from port 80 to port 3128. My problem
> is that I always get an error page:
>
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> While retrieving the URL / (with "/" being a link to the
> page I wanted to go to)
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> * Invalid URL
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> and some more lines describing what the error could be.
>
> I'm using Squid v2.5 stable1, and as I said I've configured
> iptables to redirect web traffic to the squid port.
> When I use Squid "non-transparent" (by configuring the browser
> to use the proxy) everything works well...
>
> Does anybody have some help for me??
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sven
>

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