I gave up and coded up a way to include configuration files in squid.conf. you can now do something like this: include /full/path/to/another/file/to/include without quotes or anything like that. Heck, spaces in the filename may even work. Its sitting in squid-2.HEAD and it works for me. So: * who wants to use it? * who wants to test it out and see if it works? :) * who would like it backported to squid-2.6 when any/all bugs have been squished? Adrian