Michael Dean wrote:
>
> hi ppl
>
> is it possible to redirect a plain GET request say
>
> GET / HTTP/1.0
>
> to another url?? ... ie. I have a redirecting perl script running with the
> line ...
>
> s,^/$,http://proxycfg:8080/,g
>
> so that it tries to redirect to the proxycfg host that will spit back the
> proxy autoconfig for web clients using proxy autoconfig ...
>
> what I've tried thus far doesn't work.
>
> has anyone tried to do this sort of thing already? or does squid refuse
> the URL that is requested before it gets to the redirector stage.
>
> any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> mike
>
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I think it _should_ be rejected at the first level parsing step before
being passed to a redirector. I'm also fairly sure that it happens
_after_ the redirector in squid 1.1.x (because I had a redirector crash
from an unexpected hostless url). Squid2.x? Not sure. Pick a number.
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