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Re: Extremely rare Apache configuration



On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have the following situation: my company has a HTTP proxy server to
> access Internet WWW sites. All browsers are required to use this proxy
> because we all are behind a firewall. 
> 
> I am overseas and connected to our corporate headquarters through a very
> slow satellite link. I can not give my users unlimited access to the
> Internet through the proxy because of the limited bandwidth, which is
> needed for more important tasks.
> 
> There are certain hosts in the Internet my users need to access, but again,
> to do this they HAVE to go through the proxy.
> 
> What about this: set up Apache locally as a proxy server for my local users
> and, at the same time, to have Apache contacting the corporate proxy server
> to access Internet hosts. I know it sounds confusing and do not know if I
> am understood...
> 
> Another way of putting it would be: can one proxy server be configured to
> go through the another proxy server for certain addresses???

I just looked at the squid (caching proxy server) config file and it does
have tags to do this, You'd setup squid to use your corp's proxy server
for *.mycorp.com and squid would get the rest directly, I'd suggest the
tags to add to the config file would be:

cache_host myproxy.corp.com 80 7  # proxy-port icp-disable
cache_host_domain myproxy.corpy.com mycorp.com

All other requests will be resolved localy. squid is handy because it
should cache pages retrieved from your slow sat link, speeding things up 
alot, it's also a snap to setup under debian ;>

Jason


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