-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/2014 6:42 a.m., Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2014 19:12:25 you wrote: >> This is what I tried: squidclient PURGE -m >> http://i.imgur.com/OtvOiYIb.jpg Sending HTTP request ... done. >> >> relevant squid.conf entry >> >> acl PURGE method PURGE http_access allow PURGE localhost hussam >> http_access deny PURGE >> >> >> The file is not purged. Any ideas? > > I got it. changing the rule to > > acl PURGE method PURGE http_access allow PURGE localhost > http_access allow PURGE hussam http_access deny PURGE > > fixed it. > Either your purge requests were not coming from the localhost IPs or the localhost ACL is not matching the IP properly. squidclient should be using ::1 by default. Is this a RHEL build of Squid with their patch to stop ::1 being considered as localhost? Amos -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS0fA7AAoJELJo5wb/XPRjNBkIAL8dezetgKu1y9+tTLBY7Ljm kY7uJ8ftwZxIoGBr0kBZSmxwRoMpWR+gWiJJt82rSNjcqmOM3OIdpgUvgStSGlpO ekX4vUYBOP7LxUUCAZTqYG4Ux9JYGIlcA+FxTeBKmC4elJq09PDac8ix2Otx7QYW GFsnMIXCM1vWVkiEqi8e2X1Lnpaw/WWSUGewMxRfml7//A2sVfeD0JYTEARgslRL PkK1aji9g8fUBeAjmJnE/ewXZJCwbGaYxe8WMLwu8XGz9spSZ4aMn15CwtRbJeor BpvvS4tCcFqWbdwMZD1ynZVuiHUrrn1KzPlh/kJEfFAhOwL2c1qGjUpRoLeMUGY= =6Sqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----