[mdlug] OT: squid question

Dan Pritts danno at umich.edu
Fri Nov 16 12:29:55 EST 2007


The first thing i'd do is see if squid's logging verbosity can be
increased; that might tell you what you want to know.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:25:08PM -0500, Dean Durant wrote:
> Hello, here's what I maybe should have asked:
> 
> A user goes to a site, some hotel site.   Nothing wrong yet.   She wants
> to check on the availability of certain rooms for certain dates.   There
> are drop down menus where she can put in the dates she wants to check.  
> She clicks 'Submit' and then gets a 'denied' page saying the page is
> blocked.  The URL has not changed.   I can check the access log and the
> URL is the same.   So why did it get blocked?   All I can see that squid
> does is block by domain name.   I know it can also block by regex, and I
> saw something in the squid.conf file about "query cache cgi-bin /;
> Deny query" (not sure of the syntax).   What is that last one about?  
> I've spent some time studying the syntax of the squid.conf file.   No,
> it doesn't look that hard but I have other things to do.   I mean, I get
> to the ACL section, and there are all these entries, yes it's true, the
> last person probably did not document it that well.    I guess, I feel
> under the gun to learn it quickly.   Sorry if I seem lazy.   I guess I
> can buy the O'Reilly squid book and study it over the Holiday break.   
> Well, thanks for reading.  
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