Can Squid *be* the origin server for certain URLs?

[Ben Drees <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm running several Squids (2.5 STABLE 12) in a reverse proxy setup 
behind a load balancer. I want the load balancer to be able to health 
check the Squids independent of whether the origin servers are currently 
available (there are other health checks that cover all bases). For 
various reasons, using cachemgr or "cache_object://" urls won't work. I 
would like to carve a magic URL out of the URL space, something like 
"/status", and have Squid just return 200 OK whenever that URL is 
requested. Is there a way to configure such behavior, or will I have to 
touch the code to make this work?

Thanks,
Ben