Controlling access to the proxy server
While Squid is running on our server, it can be accessed in several ways for example, via normal web browsing by end users or as a parent or sibling proxy server by neighboring proxy servers. Squid provides various directives to control access to different resources. Next, we'll learn about granting or revoking access to different resources.
HTTP access control
ACLs help only in identifying requests based on different rules. ACLs are of no use by themselves, they should be combined with access control directives to allow or deny access to various resources. http_access is one such directive which is used to grant access to perform HTTP transactions through Squid.
Let's have a look at the syntax of http_access ...
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