Re: [squid-users] squid support socks

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Abdul Khader wrote:

> I want to tunnel all the ftp, socks, pop and smtp
> through my squid. I have a squid which authenticates
> the users, so, I want all the requests, be it socks,
> http, ftp, pop, smtp or voice chat or video chat to go
> through my squid. Is there any way to tunnel all this
> through my squid. I will run a socks server but that
> socks server should in turn tunnel it's traffic
> through my http proxy.

What you propose is pure madness, not to mention that it won't work as
pop, smtp etc is not HTTP protocols.

> Actually, my user's are complaining that they are not
> able to use yahoo messenger's voice chat and video
> chat and that they are not able to use ftp on those
> sites which requires autentication. Please advise me
> if I can. what is the best solution for this
> situation. I cannot go for nat/masq.

As have been said multiple times in this thread: Squid is a HTTP proxy. As
such it is per definition only meant for proxying web requests from web
browsers or other HTTP clients.

HTTP clients configured to use Squid as proxy for ftp:// can use
authentication by using URLs like

   ftp://user:password@host/path/to/file

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 02:19:11 MST