[squid-users] Reverse proxy and TUNNEL to same cache peer

[Hariharan Sethuraman]

Yes correct, the parent Proxy is a forward, but the squid will have to do
both from client aspect.

Can I run two instances of squid - forward and reverse separately
considering my configuration is good enough?

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, 22:00 Amos Jeffries, <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 08/08/18 04:01, Hariharan Sethuraman wrote:
> > Thanks Amos: yes agree that I should have told forward proxy.
> >
> > When I remove the originserver option from cache_peer, the forward proxy
> > is working so which means the rewriter is not precluding from happening.
> > Does that give any clue to us?
> >
>
> Ah, cant believe I missed that. If the parent proxy is your access to
> the Internet then is *not* a reverse-proxy. It cannot be and receive
> proxy<->proxy traffic.
>
> Any attempt to change the scheme is erased because the scheme is not
> part of origin-form message syntax.
>
>
> > Moreover the reverse proxy is in next hop to the client and not in
> > internet. Time being, we are ok to have insecure channel between client
> > and squid. Do you have any sample config that that uses a parent proxy
> > to do both forward/reverse proxy? Or do you see my config is good enough
> > for this requirement.
> >
>
> The traffic types have different syntax. It is possible to have a parent
> proxy which receives both, but that has to be different ports and
> different cache_peer links between them.
>
> Amos
>
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