---- Jenny Lee <bodycar...@live.com> wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:53:22 +1100 > > From: leigh.wedd...@bigpond.com > > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > > Subject: [squid-users] Squid only forwards GET requests to cache_peer > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with squid only forwarding HTTP GET requests to > > cache_peers. My setup is that the corporate network has no access to the > > Internet, access is only via corporate wide http proxies. I also have > > another separate network (NET2, which does not have Internet access), which > > has only restricted access to the corporate network via a firewall. I am > > running a squid proxy in NET2 which should connect direct to various > > corporate WWW resources, and should connect to the corporate proxies for > > any WWW resources on the Internet. This all works fine for HTTP GET > > requests. However for HTTP HEAD requests (eg. needed for wget -N), it does > > not work for WWW resources on the Internet; Squid always tries to handle > > HEAD requests directly, it does NOT forward them to the defined > > cache_peers. I have 8 cache_peers defined as follows: > > > > cache_peer 10.97.216.133 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.216.136 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.216.139 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.216.142 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.217.133 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.217.136 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.217.139 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > cache_peer 10.97.217.142 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin > > > > Can anyone shed any light on what might be the problem, and what I can do > > to fix it? > > > > I am running squid 2.7.STABLE5 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) > > PL1. > > > > Thanks, > > Leigh. > > > > nonhierarchical_direct off > > should fix it for you. > > Jenny
Thanks Jenny. The nonhierarchical_direct documentation actually referred me to never_direct (and hence always_direct) which provided an example of exactly what I needed. The problem is now fixed. I thought it would be a simple solution, I just needed pointing in the right direction. Thanks, Leigh.
