On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, OTR Comm wrote: > My question is this, if squid is a caching proxy, how come it sends all > GETs to the redirector? That is, even a sight that is not blocked by > the squidGuard blacklist is passed to squidGuard for checking.
Because a) Redirectors is really meant for redirecting the requests to local known mirrors. b) The rules in your redirector may differ for differen users. > When does squid check it's cache for the information on any given > request? Is it after the call to squidGuard? Yes, and it need to be for proper redirector function, even when using SquidGuard for blocking purposes.. Regards Henrik
