[mdlug] OT: squid question

[Aaron Kulkis]

Dan Pritts wrote:
> 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.
> 

and also do a

tail -f

on the log file so that you can see what each action
produces in the log file as it happens.+

> 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.