[IPCop-user] Transparent proxy, Squid, Hotmail and MSN

[jonr <jo...@de...>]

http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1169

Ok,

I have been going through the mailing lists here and on the squid list 
trying to figure out how to get this to work. There has been a lot said 
on what to add to the squid.conf file for whichever version you are 
running. I am on IPCop 1.4.2 and it uses squid2.5 STABLE7 and have tried 
to add:

acl hotmail_domains dstdomain .hotmail.msn.com
header_access Accept-Encoding deny hotmail_domains
(I know there is a third line that can also be added but it will still 
give the same error as explained below.) I have read posts where this 
has fixed the problem for many people even so far as when they comment 
it out and restart squid the error is repeatable, so I beleive this is 
the fix for the hotmail/msn issue when running in transparent mode.

But after entering those lines into squid.conf and reloading squid I am 
receiving the error:

2005/02/28 14:45:36| parseConfigFile: line 43 unrecognized: 
'header_access Accept-Encoding deny hotmail_domains'

I read one post where it was said this error was caused because the 
squid for IPCop was compiled with the --disable-http-violations flag. Is 
that the reason I am getting the above error when I restart squid after 
entering in the 2 lines shown above? If so, is there a way to get this 
compiled into the squid binary on IPCop?

I have also read that transparent proxy is bad but I am using DG to 
guard our labs against the public and I dont want to have to configure 
each and every machine to use the proxy. I know I could also use Mozilla 
or any other browser but I can't change which browser is being used here 
in the organization.

Is there a way to still use DG and not use a transparent proxy where I 
would not have to go to each machine and configure them to use the proxy 
IP and port?

I have also tried to disable the HTTP 1.1 connection with and without 
proxy if you are using and one without the other in 
Tools>InternetOptions>Advanced in IE, without success.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Jon