On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
> apache is a really a web server. AFAIK, it has very limited features to
> be a proxy server.
> If you are using debian, make sure the module is installed.
>
> For a better proxy server, I suggest you to try out squid. There is a
> debian package for it.
OK, thanks for this hint. Now I installed the potato package of
squid and tried to work out how to use it. The FAQ says:
% squidclient http://www.netscape.com/ > test
Unfortunately I get a
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
message with each server I try, also with http://localhost/. To
make it clear, I append the file "test".
The second recommended test is
% squid -k check
What should I expect from this call? It runs without any
message.
Assuming that I would be able to install squid successfully I
would like to know, what entry I have to set into my netscape
preferences for the proxy. Is it the http address of the
host running Apache and Squid or what else?
Kind regards
Andreas.
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: Squid/2.2.STABLE3
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:29:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 680
Expires: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:29:00 GMT
X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0
X-Cache: MISS from wr-linux01.rki.de
Proxy-Connection: close
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>ERROR</H1>
<H2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</H2>
<HR>
<P>
While trying to retrieve the URL:
<A HREF="http://localhost/";>http://localhost/</A>
<P>
The following error was encountered:
<UL>
<LI>
<STRONG>
Access Denied.
</STRONG>
<P>
Access control configuration prevents your request from
being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if
you feel this is incorrect.
</UL>
</P>
<br clear="all">
<hr noshade size=1>
Generated Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:29:00 GMT by wr-linux01.rki.de (<a
href="http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/";>Squid/2.2.STABLE3</a>)
</BODY></HTML>
