On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Martin Joseph wrote:
If you have http_access lines but none matches the request the action the opposite of your last http_access rule.
Wouldn't it make more sense for squid to DENY any requests after finishing with the ACL list, thus forcing people to explicitly enable the access they want to allow?
Yes and no. There is many ways of doing access lists.
With the current design you can easily do either
deny everything which is not allowed
or
allow only what is allowed
and the result will be what you intended.
Most people find it easier with explicit rules and is why the suggested standard configuration shipped with Squid looks like (in order)
1. limit cachemgr access
2. deny abuse
3. allow your clients to use the proxy
4. deny everything else
(see squid.conf.default for the actual rules with comments)
Regards Henrik
