Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy without using accelerator?

05-Apr-02 at 11:46, Henrik Nordstrom (hno@marasystems.com) wrote :
> I would strongly advice you to ditch the idea on transparent proxying
> with login requirements, and instead go for a standard proxy
> installation with authentication. If you problem is how to get the users
> to change their proxy settings then the same technique as used for
> transparent proxying can be used to intercept all requests for port 80
> and redirect them to an HTTP server (for example Apache) returning a
> small instruction page on how to reconfigure the browser.

Excellent idea Henrik. Never thought of that, but it should allow me to
ditch transparent proxying forever. Never liked it in the first place.

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