[AuckLUG] Help with Squid (As a transparent proxy) and Debian...

[Chris Hodgetts]

Hey, I have just come off a very nice cable plan that gave me 1/10
national traffic, and now that I am being billed for every bit of data
the $partners use of Trademe is showing in the data usage monitor more
than ever...

I thought that I might install Squid so we dont blow our data cap, as I
am sure she will never give up trademe :)

I installed the squid package for debian, entered the setting for
visible_hostname modified the acl for the network 192.168.100.0/24.

I followed the article at
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/71

The following lines give me errors on start up and squid fails to start
and says they are invalid.

httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on

/etc/squid.conf's first line is 
#   WELCOME TO SQUID 2.6.STABLE1

Once I have set up the port forwarding in the firewall (shorewall) to
redirect traffic to squid proxy this is what I see in my webbrowser...

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to process the request:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060406 Firefox/1.5.0.4 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1)
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PREF=ID=e2e8167f796fff74:FF=4:LD=en:NR=10:CR=2:TM=1144579058:LM=1152258954:DV=AA:GM=1:S=ytRi03_g8iwJL9Ig; rememberme=false



The following error was encountered:

      * Invalid Request

Some aspect of the HTTP Request is invalid. Possible problems:

      * Missing or unknown request method
      * Missing URL
      * Missing HTTP Identifier (HTTP/1.0)
      * Request is too large
      * Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests
      * Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed

Your cache administrator is webmaster. 



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Generated Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:27:00 GMT by caitlin.archnetnz.com
(squid/2.6.STABLE1)


Any help or comment, or even a link to a working squid.conf file that I
can have a look at would be good.

Thanks again.