Thanx, Things turned out much easier then expected! I just needed a wake up call so it seemed... as i could not see a solution as obvious as this! I experienced a genuine "duh" moment I wrote this little redirector.. #!/usr/bin/perl -p BEGIN{ $|=1 } s|blaa.org|realbla.org:57007|o; etc etc etc I have to do some tests though as far as performance goes. How much faster does squirm or squidguard perform then my -way- too easy sollution.. But for now i am happy, problems are solved.... for now :) Thanx! Regards, Thijn On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 06:15 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2005, thijn wrote: > > > For years i have been using the apache proxy directives to forward > > traffic to various webservers (apaches & tomcats). > > These webservers run on various non default ports, it is not possible to > > let all of them listen on the same port as defined in squid.conf ,or at > > least run on the same port as the accelerated port > > It is possible. > > > Now the acceleration mechanisme works for default stuff. > > for example if a user would use the following URL's in their browsers. > > www.example.org > www.trueserver.org (works) > > www.example.org:8080 > www.trueserver.org:8080 (works) > > > > but > > www.example.org > www.trueserver.org:57007 is not working. > > In an accelerator you do this either witn an redirector rewriting the > accelerated URL adding the correct port number or by cache_peer based > forwarding of the requests. > > I can also recommend looking into the related (commercial) offerings by > MARA Systems. > > Regards > Henrik -- Thijn van der Schoot (thijn@xxxxx) V2_System management & Operations (http://systems.v2.nl/helpdesk.html) Phone +31 (0)10 7501527 V2_Lab - International Lab For the Unstable Media (http://lab.v2.nl) - Love is... Sharing your private PGP keys ! -- Without Prejudice, All Rights Reserved.