[squid-users] ip-based ACL under transparent mode

[Amos Jeffries]

On 2015-12-31 18:02, xxiao8 wrote:
> Under transparent mode, is it possible to get client's IP and assign a
> specific ACL rule to it?

The "src" ACL matches client IP. Always.

<http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl#How_do_I_allow_my_clients_to_use_the_cache.3F>

> is it possible to use the client-IP-address
> as a variable in redirector scripts?

<http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers#URL_manipulation>

> Basically when transparent mode
> is used we don't have the "user" for each requests and I'm thinking if
> I can extract the IP of client request and use that to distinguish
> them, at an IP level though. I want to proxy clients differently.

It is almost always a bad idea to do it with redirector (especially if 
you actually mean re-writer). But you have omitted any explanation of 
what you mean by "differently", so we can't help with the actual problem 
you are trying to solve.

Amos