Thanks Henrik, The solution is for reverse proxy. The key to making this solution work is to ensure the child squid does not proxy the data stream from 'best capable' Parent to end-user browser. Could you hazard a guess as to how much effort would be required to transpose an ICP return into a HTTP 302 redirect message back to the client? We have a development team in house, however I'm pretty sure squid source is not something they are au'fait with. Thanks, Danny Danny Hallwood -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 March 2005 12:43 To: Danny Hallwood Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [squid-users] child/parent cluster http 302 redirect query On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Danny Hallwood wrote: > I would like to know if it's possible to configure a child squid to > query parents using ICP, as standard, but to return a HTTP 302 > redirect to the end user browser with the URL for the preferred > parent. No. URLs indicate the location and name of the object to fetch, not the path how to get to the object. > The driver behind this is to develop a high bandwidth content delivery > network. Serving more data/bandwidth than any one box could proxy. I > would like to build the below architecture. Ok. Sounds like a reverse proxy setup, not a normal setup? If it is a reverse proxy setup then returning redirects as you describe is feasible, but some coding is required to implement the function in Squid. Regards Henrik
