On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:49:21 Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, April 5, 2007 1:39 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Greeets CLUGgers, > > > > If one tries to access an IPCop from behind another IPCop with the Squid > > cache > > turned on and in use by the browser you get an access denied message from > > the > > cache. OTOH, if you set the browser to access the Internet directly, you > > are > > allowed to access the remote IPCop's config web site. > > > > Is this a feature or a bug? > > If you cannot access a site outside your own with the cache turned on, but > you can with the cache turned off then it is clearly a bug. How could it > possibly be regarded as a feature?
I imagine because the cache would/could ( ? ) store details which should be private to the remote IPCop site. Local users could then ( posssibly ) get access to those details later. Note the '?' and 'possibly' in parentheses. I don't know if this is possible, but would like to know. Wasted many hours on this one, until the penny finally dropped. -- CS
