Re: squid and different parents for different procotols?

[Henrik Nordstrom]

Marc Haber wrote:

> My (only) parent is not a squid, but a junkbuster. junkbuster can't do
> ftp. Do I have a chance to have my squid ask a different parent
> (another squid) for ftp URLs only?

See cache_peer_acl, always_direct and never_direct in squid.conf.
Remember that cache_peer_acl is used to select the list of valid peers
for the object, so it can only stop Squid from using a certain parent,
not force it use a specific parent.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker