On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:20:09 +0000, Blake Dournaee <dournaee1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All - > > I apologize if this is a newbie question or if it > has been answered before. I've spent some time on Google and the > various documentation resources for squid and I have been unable to > find an answer. > > First of all, I am running squid 2.7 STABLE 7 on > a Windows 7 64-bit machine and the proxy works great when configured in > Firefox. > > However, what I am looking to do is access the proxy > functionality directly via HTTP - for example, assume I have squid > running on http://localhost:3128, is it possible for me to pass-in the > URL to proxy by first accessing the squid proxy server in the browser? > > In > other words, I am looking to be able to do something like: > http://localhost:3128/?url=www.google.com and then have the request go > to squid, squid go to google and then the response come directly back > to the browser. Obviously this syntax above is something I just made > up, but logically this is what I am looking for. Why? Browsers already "access" proxies by formatting their HTTP requests differently and sending them to the configured proxy. > > Can anyone tell > me if such functionality currently exists that can be accessed, or if > there is an API or plug-in that has been written that will enable this? Not the way you are wanting. > Finally (in the worst case), is it possible/feasible to modify the > source to add this feature and if so would it be overly complex to do? > (I do have dev. experience in Linux and Windows). It certainly *seems* > like something like the above should be easy to do since squid is a > proxy. You can hack up a slightly complicated and fragile config to do it. But it's better in a lot of ways to simply set the browser config panels properly. Amos
