[squid-dev] Forcing interception(transparent) mode, disabling NS lookups, and 'secretly' forwarding connections

[Joshua Rogers]

I ended up finding a solution.

http->uri in the ConnStateData::parseHttpRequest function can simply be
rewritten to be http://localhost:80/. You can also manually set
COMM_INTERCEPTION a little bit before that.



On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:31 PM Joshua Rogers <jrogers at opera.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have an extremely specific question about manipulating Squid to run to
> in a very specific way.
> Due to the complexity, I will gladly accept a "not possible" answer.
>
> I need to make the following changes to Squid, or somehow manipulate Squid
> to:
>
> 1) Always consider a client intercepted. This would mean
> that COMM_INTERCEPTION is set for every client no matter what.
>
> 2) NS lookups for domains needs to be disabled or simply return localhost.
> I have considered setting AI_NUMERICHOST flag for every getaddrinfo() call,
> but I don't think this function is used for making connections to a website
> (gethostbyname seems to be used in some places).
>
> 3) Every outward connection Squid makes needs to be forwarded to localhost
> on a specific port.
>
>
> Why do I need to do this?
> I have a large set of files which contain HTTP requests (headers included).
> I have a large set of files which contain HTTP responses (headers
> included).
>
> I would like to loop the HTTP requests, sending each request to Squid, and
> then I would like to run a loop, responding with each of the HTTP responses
> I have stored. The idea is to get a nice code coverage report which I can
> use for research later on.
>
> Like I said, this is a bit complicated, but I thought I would act, perhaps
> somebody has an interesting idea how to do this :-). It will most certainly
> require me to somehow defile the source code, but this is just temporary
> and is nothing to do with a production service.
>
> Happy to hear any ideas.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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