On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:02:24 -0400, "AJ Weber" <[email protected]> wrote: > True, but in my case, I don't want ALL users to use the proxy. Only users > in a certain geography to cache content that's coming "across the pond". > > Thus, my application is "smart enough" to know where the user physically > is > located on the WAN, and will ask for the content directly from the > original/source if they are "local" to that datacenter; it will ask for it > from Squid if they are "far away". > > I also don't have control over DNS entries (I can request them, but again, > the previous) sentence.
See my other post for references to the documentation. Note the DNS part of reverse-proxy only exists so clients know where to send their requests. Exactly as they require DNS to find a plain website. You seem to have solved that problem by non-DNS means. The Squid part of the setup is unchanged between full reverse-proxy and what you ask. Amos
