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11.6 Exercises

  • Write a redirector that never changes the requested URI and configure Squid to use it.

  • While running tail -f cache.log, kill Squid's redirector processes one by one until something interesting happens.

  • Download and install one of the redirectors mentioned in the previous section.



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		11.1 The Redirector Interface
    		11.2 Some Sample Redirectors
    		11.3 The Redirector Pool
    		11.4 Configuring Squid
    		11.5 Popular Redirectors
    		11.6 Exercises
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients