On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:46, mjmcgraw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Now it works from the local machine that is actually running squid, > but when I try to SSH using Putty into the squid host I get nothing. I > am forwarding port 3128 with Putty and setting the brower to use > localhost:3128 for proxy. Just point your browser to the proxy server on port 3128. SSH is not needed. > Maybe I'm understanding this wrong but I thought if I used SSH to > connect to the squid host it would appear as a local connection and > the acl for localhost for work. SSH supports port forwarding. But that's surely not the normal mode of operation and proxy surfing. I hope it's clear that Squid is a HTTP proxy which is not at all connected to SSH. Christoph
