> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:21 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Squid reverse proxy - URL change in 
> the response
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> A question related to the URL a client receives as a response to its 
> request.
> 
> If a client sends the following request http://www.somename.com/...
> 
> Squid in reverse proxy mode with the following configuration 
>         httpd_accel_host myhost.domain.com
>         httpd_accel_port 8080
>         httpd_accel_single_host on
>         httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
> 
> returns the following URL in the response
> 
> http://myhost.domain.com:8080/ ...
> 
> which is wrong. Is there any way I can tell Squid to return 
> back to the 
> user the original URL?
> 
> Right now I am resorting to the following solution which I consider 
> temporary
> 
> in /etc/hosts file add the following line
> 
> IP_of_myhost.domain.com  www.somename.com 
> 
> 
> and Squid configuration changes to
> 
> httpd_accel_host www.somename.com
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_single_host on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dimitar 
>

First a disclaimer.  I don't run squid as an accelerator so I am not certain of 
any of the methods that I propose. According to 
http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap28sec231.html, you might want to set

http_accel_host IP_of_myhost.domain.com

and

redirect_rewrites_host_header off

Chris

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