Re: [squid-users] POST fails when Parent proxy is used.

ons 2007-04-04 klockan 10:42 +0200 skrev Thomas Nilsen:

> cache_peer proxy1.emirates.net.ae parent 8080 3130 no-query
> cache_peer_domain proxy1.emirates.net.ae !roxar.com
>
> This should pass all traffic on to the ISP proxy apart from requests to
> *.roxar.com sites.

Not quite..

it will pass all cachable traffic to the ISP proxy. For requests which
can not be satisfied from a cache it will still go direct.

> This part works as expected, but once we access an
> external site that has a form using POST, the following is logged in the
> access.log, which to me indicates that it no longer uses the parent
> proxy when submitting the form via POST

> I assume this isn't normal behaviour, or did I miss something in the
> config?

It's normal with your configuration. See the never_direct directive.

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