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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide
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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

by Kulbir Saini
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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A special URL redirector – deny_info

The deny_info option is a directive in the Squid configuration file, which can be used to:

  • Present clients with a custom access denied page.
  • Redirect (HTTP 302) the clients to a different URL, displaying more information about why access was denied or containing help messages.
  • Reset the TCP connection.

Let's have a look at the three syntaxes of the deny_info directive:

deny_info CUSTOM_ERROR_PAGE ACL_NAME
deny_info ALTERNATE_URL ACL_NAME
deny_info TCP_RESET ACL_NAME

The syntaxes shown previously correspond to the uses we have just discussed. In the first syntax, the parameter CUSTOM_ERROR_PAGE specifies a custom error page written in HTML or plain text, which will be displayed instead of Squid's default access denied ...

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