Re: [squid-users] Re: re[squid-users] verse proxy headache

From: Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:16:17 +0200

On tis, 2008-04-29 at 00:00 -0700, caifeng wrote:

> when using squid2.6, in order to have you squidserver work properly, adding
> following line to your config file:
> always_direct allow ACL_NAME

No, absolutely not.

In reverse proxies using 2.6 and later forwarding to the origin servers
is done using cache_peer. This is both for efficiency reasons and
security.

always_direct should only be used in a few very special cases where
using cache_peer is not wanted.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Apr 29 2008 - 10:16:22 MDT

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