Hello! I'm in a bit of a deadlock, so all my hopes are with you. The short version: I want to use squid as both an accelerator and as a forward proxy which can handle CONNECT requests. >From what I've read over the net, these 2 cases are mutually exclusive, but I decided to ask anyway, since maybe there's a workaround or alternative method. Basically, I configure squid to listen to TCP/80 and use apache on TCP/81 as an origin server, but I also want it to handle CONNECT requests to a port range on localhost (10000-10020). In case you were wondering, here's my squid.conf file: http://pastebin.com/fcfcd6a6 Whenever I try to connect through the proxy via CONNECT, i get the infamous [parseHttpRequest: CONNECT not valid in accelerator mode] error in the logs. I tried (as it can be seen) to enable the proxy both-ways (with the allow-direct and always_direct keywords), but it works as far as CONNECT. There, it stops working as I expect it to. If anyone has any thoughts on how I may overcome this problems, please do. Thank you!