[squid-users] hiding web server port

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 1/11/2014 6:39 p.m., Joel Mestres wrote:
> hello everyone! I'm trying to configure squid 2.7 so it works with
> a web server (another machine different from squid proxy server) 
> running apache2 on port 8082 (for instance). Squid is installed on 
> debian. Now I have squid with http_port 3128 transparent but I
> don't figure out how can I achive my goal. The idea is "hide" the
> port to clients. I was able to achive this without squid, with
> iptables.... redirecting 80 to 8082 and 8082 to 80. So is it
> possible to do something like this using squid proxy. Thanks a lot
> for your help!

Squid does support this for use in CDN networks. BUT, it is generally
not a good idea to do so in HTTP. The server often embeds the port it
is listening on in URLs generated. That can happen in various places
in the HTTP headers and even the object body content being delivered.

Can you upgrade to squid3 package?

Also, why are you using transparent?

Amos
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