Topic: Squid Proxy Issues

[George Plymale]

I am needing to access a certain site that serves a Java applet that does not run with the default proxy configuration.  I was told by the hosting site that I need to "Turn off caching at the proxy for just abc.xyz.com".

I've tried several things such as turning off transparent proxy in hopes of telling the client machines on our network to not use proxy, however that doesn't do it.  I've also tried adding:

acl abc dstdomain .abc.xyz.com
always_direct allow abc

to /etc/squid/squid.conf (the template actually, then I expanded it).  But this doesn't do the trick either.

How can I turn off proxy caching for this particular site?  Or do I need to change ipchains and if so, how can I do that for this particular case?

Thanks much.

[Amir]

cant you just exclude that domain in your browser config not to go via proxy for it?

[George Plymale]

I am not sure what you mean.  By using transparent proxy it appears that I don't have control over client proxy settings.  I have also tried disabling that, but I still seem to have the same problem.  There seems to be no way to change the settings on the client side.

[Filippo Carletti]

Use:
no_cache deny abc

always_direct is to bypass proxy hierarchy.