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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide Reduce bandwidth use and deliver your most frequently requested web pages more quickly with Squid Proxy Server. This guide will introduce you to the fundamentals of the caching system and help you get the most from Squid.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513906
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Squid Proxy Server 3.1 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Squid 2. Configuring Squid FREE CHAPTER 3. Running Squid 4. Getting Started with Squid's Powerful ACLs and Access Rules 5. Understanding Log Files and Log Formats 6. Managing Squid and Monitoring Traffic 7. Protecting your Squid Proxy Server with Authentication 8. Building a Hierarchy of Squid Caches 9. Squid in Reverse Proxy Mode 10. Squid in Intercept Mode 11. Writing URL Redirectors and Rewriters 12. Troubleshooting Squid Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – constructing simple ACLs


Let's construct an access control list for the domain name example.com:

acl example_site dstdomain example.com

In this code, example_site is the name of the ACL with type dstdomain, which reflects that the value, example.com, is the domain name.

Now if we want to construct an access control list which can cover a lot of example websites, we have the following three possible ways of doing it:

  1. Values on a single line: We can specify all the possible values on a single line:

    acl example_sites dstdomain example.com example.net example.org

    This works fine as long as there are only a few values.

  2. Values on multiple lines: In case the list of values that we want to specify grows significantly, we can split the list and pass values on multiple lines:

    acl example_sites dstdomain example.com example.net
    acl example_sites dstdomain example.org
  3. Values from a file: If case the number of values we want to specify is quite large, we can put them in a dedicated file and...

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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide
Published in: Feb 2011
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ISBN-13: 9781849513906
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