On 27/10/2015 9:23 p.m., Kinkie wrote: > Hi, > a proxy is different from a webserver. The protocol they speak is > slightly different in order to support the use-cases (nothing would > technically prevent from having webservers use a language more similar > to proxies); what you are trying to do is to use Squid (the proxy) as > if it was a webserver, which it isn't. Note that if you have a separate web server already that the proxy is just proxying for with that domain name it is called a reverse-proxy situation. That is doable and common setup with Squid (ie how most CDN work). But it does require a separate webserver doing the webserver things. Amos > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Phil Allred wrote: >> I want to have users access squid directly from a URL like this: >> >> http://my.squidserver.org:3128/testurl >> >> Rather than by setting a proxy in their browser. Then I want squid to >> rewrite the URL “my.squidserver.org” to the site I want users to access. >> The reason I want to do this is in order to access ONLY a certain research >> database through the proxy server, not all HTTP requests. >> >> When I set up squid to do url rewriting, everything works, if I configure my >> browser to use my proxy server. However, when I try to access squid >> directly like mentioned above, it refuses to try to rewrite the URL. Squid >> just sends back an error like this: >> >> The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: >> /testurl >> >> Invalid URL >> >> Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. >> >> >> >> Is what I’m trying to do even possible? If so, how do I fix my problem? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Phil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> squid-users mailing list >> squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
