RE: [squid-users] Using a helper program with squid

Your message hasn't been on the list for even 24 hours yet. Not everyone who
might have an answer monitors the list every single day. For a fast response
time there are squid consultants happy to answer questions immediately for a
fee.

I don't know what you are trying to do, but it looks like you want one
person to go to a website but have the requested page show up on another
computer instead.

Networking 101: review the OSI model.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/introint.htm

Also, the browser establishes a 3 way handshake as part of the start up
communications that take place.
SYN (hi, I'd like to talk with you)
ACK/SYN (ok, lets talk)
ACK (great, here we go)

These get passed in the http headers, prior to the actual transfer of data
from the webserver to the browser and you would need to have these passed
where you wanted them to go to have this concept work.

I don't know enough about squid to give a yes or no, but can point you to
the FAQ on www.squid-cache.org, the above link, and the suggestion you look
into the way browsers and servers communicate back and forth as a means of
figuring this out.

Off the top of my head, I would say no, because even if you got the packets
to go to the internet based PC....how would it know what to do with the
information it got? Browsers pull information in, after requesting that
information. Servers do not dial up browsers and pop data into them. (and
what a mess it would be if they could...you think spam is bad....)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Sasan Dashtinezhad [mailto:sasan@cs.umd.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:26 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Using a helper program with squid

Has anybody gotten a chance to look at the replied email? I'd appreciate it
if somebody could at least give me a "yes or no" response.

Regards,
--Sasan

Sasan Dashtinezhad wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I'm trying to use squid as my proxy, but in a rather weird setup. I
>need the HTTP packets to be sent to another connection (not the
>original connection from which the request was received) and then read
>the response from another connection and send that to the original
>connection. I.e., client sends request to squid squid connects to
>original server squid reads response R squid sends R to x.y.z:p
>(somewhere on the Internet) and closes
> the connection when done
>squid opens a new connection to x.y.z:p to read the response squid
>reads response R'
>squis sends R' to client
>
>I know that squid is a powerful tool and can be configured in several
>ways. Is it possible for me to do all of this (or something similar)
>using the configuration mechanisms of squid? Or do I have to dive into
>the source code and try implementing this myself...? (I'm having a
>feeling that I might be able to do this using peers.)
>
>Any help is strongly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>--Sasan
>
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 09:14:28 MDT