Squid Proxy Server 3.1 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – testing our access control example with squidclient

We now need to run the squidclient to fetch http://malware.example.com/ to check if we get an access denied error or not. If we are running the squidclient on the production server, then we don't need to use the -h option to specify the hostname. In this scenario, we can run the squidclient with the -p option to specify the port.

./squidclient -p 8080 http://malware.example.com

However, if we are running the squidclient on a different machine, we will have to use the -h option to specify the hostname of the proxy server. In this scenario, we can run the squidclient with the following configuration:

./squidclient -h proxy.example.com -p 8080 http://malware.example.com

If our access ...