[squid-users] Hi, i need some help about squid for windows

[Amos Jeffries]

On 28/08/21 12:12 pm, Momir Milekic wrote:
> Hi,
> Until recently I used squid proxy 2.72 32bit on windows xp machine. We 
> finally switched to 64-bit windows10. I copied the old squid proxy to 
> windows10 with saved settings (just for test, we were short with time 
> for new install). It basically works but there are some problems.
> I wanted to install newer squid proxy version for windows even earlier, 
> but the lack of support for windowsxp prevented me.
> In the meantime, i found the v4 version of the squid proxy for windows 
> 10. It taked my attention.
> 
> I learned to make the most important settings in the config file, but I 
> still don't know a lot.
> I have some questions:
> 1) how do I configure forbidden access to sites (facebook, youtube) for 
> certain ip addresses from the LAN network? a couple of simple examples 
> would help?


see <https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl>



> 2) proxy functions work nicely but sometimes the squid proxy "locks up" 
> and there is no data flow for 2-3 minutes. It usually helps to wait or 
> restart the service. How to prevent this? The internet link is good, 
> probably a problem with hidden bugs in the squid proxy or wrong settings 
> (how to increase stability)?


This being Squid-2 it could be quite a lot of things that have long ago 
been solved and forgotten about. First thing to do is try an upgrade.



> 3) number of simultaneous connections per client and globally, How to 
> set up win10 64bit, specifically for squid proxy service? If i need to 
> configure the OS as well, ask me how.


Windows APIs used by Squid-2 have a hard limit that cannot be changed.


> 4) how to turn off caching. The idea is to just redirect http traffic 
> and always ask/force latest version of site online? No need to make a 
> local copy/cache, just raw proxy between lan and ether/internet.
> 


In Squid-2:

   cache deny all
   cache_mem 0
   cache_dir /dev/null parent 0


In modern Squid just remove any cache_dir you have.


> note: all of the above issues and issues are related to version 2.72. If 
> v4.14 64-bit version that I downloaded from diladele site yesterday 
> works better and not have problems, then great. In any case, a couple of 
> examples for squid.conf would help me, I would be very grateful.
> 


Squid-2 is HTTP/1.0 software which is 5+ years obsolete now.

Go with the Diladele Squid-4, it is modern HTTP/1.1 software and most of 
the help you will be able to get relies on features only found in the 
Squid-3+ releases.


Amos