We're currently looking at using Squid to accelerate two different web applications, one in Zope and the other in a J2EE container. These apps currently run on the same box, listening on different ports. We're using Apache and mod_rewrite to map name-based virtual hosts to the appropriate backend. I read through the Squid documentation and have been able to get caching working for one of these applications (either one). I saw some discussion in the mailing list archive about setting up explicit IP address mappings in the hosts file, and I've been able to do that in tests to map to two different back-end servers, so long as the content is running on the same port. My question is how to send requests to different ports. If I've read the documentation correctly, it seems that a redirector program should be able to handle this. I've installed Squirm and set the redirect_program setting in squid.conf, and have tested it successfully in interactive mode. However, from my observations, it appears that Squid is still using the hosts file/DNS to map the requested name to the backend. Any suggestions? Something I'm missing? Thanks, Nathan R. Yergler Software Engineer Creative Commons
