Re: [squid-users] Dumb Cache Question

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:09:43 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, OTR Comm wrote:

> My question is this, if squid is a caching proxy, how come it sends all
> GETs to the redirector? That is, even a sight that is not blocked by
> the squidGuard blacklist is passed to squidGuard for checking.

Because

a) Redirectors is really meant for redirecting the requests to local known
mirrors.

b) The rules in your redirector may differ for differen users.

> When does squid check it's cache for the information on any given
> request? Is it after the call to squidGuard?

Yes, and it need to be for proper redirector function, even when using
SquidGuard for blocking purposes..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 00:48:48 MST

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