[squid-users] Accessing squid from a url rather than proxy settings

[Amos Jeffries]

On 27/10/2015 9:23 p.m., Kinkie wrote:
> Hi,
>   a proxy is different from a webserver. The protocol they speak is
> slightly different in order to support the use-cases (nothing would
> technically prevent from having webservers use a language more similar
> to proxies); what you are trying to do is to use Squid (the proxy) as
> if it was a webserver, which it isn't.


Note that if you have a separate web server already that the proxy is
just proxying for with that domain name it is called a reverse-proxy
situation.

That is doable and common setup with Squid (ie how most CDN work). But
it does require a separate webserver doing the webserver things.

Amos


> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Phil Allred wrote:
>> I want to have users access squid directly from a URL like this:
>>
>> http://my.squidserver.org:3128/testurl
>>
>> Rather than by setting a proxy in their browser.  Then I want squid to
>> rewrite the URL “my.squidserver.org”  to the site I want users to access.
>> The reason I want to do this is in order to access ONLY a certain research
>> database through the proxy server, not all HTTP requests.
>>
>> When I set up squid to do url rewriting, everything works, if I configure my
>> browser to use my proxy server.  However, when I try to access squid
>> directly  like mentioned above, it refuses to try to rewrite the URL.  Squid
>> just sends back an error like this:
>>
>> The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL:
>> /testurl
>>
>> Invalid URL
>>
>> Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is what I’m trying to do even possible?  If so, how do I fix my problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Phil
>>
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