Re: [squid-users] Transparent Proxy & No Caching

Hi Robert,

can u plz post the acl parameter .

regards
dev

On 4/26/05, Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net> wrote:
> I know this has gone through many times. I seem to read something about
> it and then when I need to know it for myself I can never find it in the
> archives.
>
> My problem is below...
>
> I have a transparent proxy set up and working fine. Outgoing requests on
> port 80 are grabbed by the router and redirected to 3128 on proxy box.
>
> acl's are fine, everything is working as expected except that the pages
> are not being cached. All requests when going through the proxy
> transparently are showing as TCP_MISS and store.log has RELEASE entries
> as soon as the file is finished downloading.
>
> Requests going through the proxy when the client is configured are fine.
> These are being cached and handed out.
>
> Files which are cached through a "configured client" are not being given
> to a transparent client though. When the trans client requests it,
> access.log gives a TCP_MISS and fetches it again, then releases.
>
> squid.conf has the following directives included...
>
> --
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
> --
>
> I have tried without them but it doesn't work (web requests hang giving
> the impression of no connectivity).
>
> I have tried removing httpd_accel_host and httpd_accel_port with no
> success (proxying but not caching).
>
> The squid.conf comments seem a bit vague to me..
>
> # TAG: httpd_accel_with_proxy on|off
> # If you want to use Squid as both a local httpd accelerator
> # and as a proxy, change this to 'on'. Note however your
> # proxy users may have trouble to reach the accelerated domains
> # unless their browsers are configured not to use this proxy for
> # those domains (for example via the no_proxy browser
> # configuration setting)
> #
> #Default:
> # httpd_accel_with_proxy off
>
> This tells me that *normally* transparent requests aren't cached, but if
> you set it to on they will be.
>
> I really am going nuts over this, and just need another person to be
> able to clarify what is going on for me and point me in the right direction.
>
> Sorry for so much to read :)
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 02:52:32 MDT