> > Hello list, > > > > Some medieval country that shall remain unnamed is > blocking access to > some > > specific websites, but the list of websites is huge, > dynamic, and not > > public. > > > > I have two proxy servers, one of which is located > outside of this > > firewall, but access to this proxy server is slower > than to the local > one. > > > > I would like to configure the local proxy to use a > peer cache based on > the > > geoip address of the destination. > > > > If the required object belongs to a specific country > then the request > will > > go through the second proxy. > > > > I know about the cache_peer_domain option, but I would > like to use a > geoip > > based solution. > > .... > > So the acl is evaluated, returns false, and the log > file doesn't have > any > > output. How come? > > Nope. The helpers is a "slow" category lookup being used in > a "fast" > category access list. The helper is never called, just the > existing results > cache tested to see if a result is known. > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl#Fast_and_Slow_ACLs > > To get this to work you need to use the ACL in a "slow" > category access > list such as http_access first to get the result cached in > Squid so it can > be retrieved without any delays by cache_peer_access. > > Amos Thanks, http_access did the trick. Perhaps there should be a reference to this in the docs, under the cache_peer_access page. By the way, I can contribute my external script, in case it would be a useful addition to the squid package. Thanks a lot!
