Time for action – testing our access control example with squidclient

We now need to run the squidclient to fetch http://malware.example.com/ to check if we get an access denied error or not. If we are running the squidclient on the production server, then we don't need to use the -h option to specify the hostname. In this scenario, we can run the squidclient with the -p option to specify the port.

./squidclient -p 8080 http://malware.example.com

However, if we are running the squidclient on a different machine, we will have to use the -h option to specify the hostname of the proxy server. In this scenario, we can run the squidclient with the following configuration:

./squidclient -h proxy.example.com -p 8080 http://malware.example.com

If our access control rules are working and they are rightly placed in the configuration file, we should get an output similar to the following:

HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: squid/3.1.4
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:28:38 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length...