Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
Now I want to know which is better for productiuon enviroment?
Squid as a Parent proxy or HAVP as Paernt proxy ?
It's up to you to decide and both are 'supported' and documented on the havp website. Usually i use HAVP as a parent proxy for Squid because squid can use authentication programs (like ntlm that i use a lot in M$ networks) and can handle blacklist, ACLs etc ... so squid does all the job and havp is just used one step further just for the antivirus stuff .... On the other hand, every is logged in squid log file and i can genereate reports easily with sarg (also available in the rpmforge repo )
Thanks a lot. Having kept SQUID in front of HAVP, I now run HAVP as a PARENT PROXY as SQUID CAN HANDLE MANY THINGS. This is the first time I use HAVP and am happy the way it works. But I am still new to HAVP. So I wnat to discuss below 3 lines I have added to squid.conf.
First I addedd below line to squid.conf and restarted squid deamon.
cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query no-digest no-netdb-exchange default
Then I browsed the web and it worked.
Then I added below 2 lines to squid.conf and restarted squid deamon as well.
acl Scan_HTTP proto HTTP never_direct allow Scan_HTTP
"acl" defines an access control list, and I don't know what "never_direct" does, but you should get your answers from th Squid documentation, either on your computer or from the Squid website.
My guess is that your rules make it do what it would do without them, and so they have no effect.