[vox-tech] HOWTO: use your domain search path with omsoft's proxy.

[Ken Bloom]

I have that configured for everything that's *not* HTTP. Unfortunately, if  
you give Omsoft's transparent proxy a Host: header (as browsers today do),  
then Omsoft will try to go ahead and resolve that to get you the web site.  
Suffice to say, Omsoft isn't going to find http://my/ (I don't know why my  
web browser isn't expected to pass on an FQDN). So my proxy (which I needed  
anyway) rewrites the URL here.

Perhaps there's an API I can tap into to make my perl script take advantage  
of the settings in /etc/resolv.conf, but I don't know what it is.

(/me looks at man pages - res_query. I think I'll try that out. It seems  
there's a perl module for that.)

On 2004.03.17 17:08, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Err...  You can just add "ucdavis.edu" to /etc/resolv.conf and ALL your
> apps that use TCP/IP should search the ucdavis.edu domain... WITHOUT
> proxy.  Example:
> 
>    search localdomain ucdavis.edu
> 
> I *think* that's what you're trying to do, right?
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Ken Bloom wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to be able to set my domain search path to ucdavis.edu and
> > type http://my/ for my.ucdavis.edu or http://sisweb/ for
> > sisweb.ucdavis.edu, and Omsoft's proxy wouldn't let me. (I actually
> > wanted to just type "my", and my web browsers will add on the http://
> > stuff for me)
> >
> > I installed Squid on my computer last night, becuase another piece of
> > software I wanted required it, and I was able to take advantage of it
> > to solve that problem.
> >
> > I added to /etc/squid.conf
> > redirect_program /usr/local/bin/squidrewrite
> > redirect_rewrites_host_header on
> >
> > and in /usr/local/bin/squidrewrite, I put:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > #inspired by the Squid 1.1 release notes
> > $|=1;
> > while (<>) {
> >    s@http://([^./]*)/@http://\1.ucdavis.edu/@ unless /http... 
> localhost/;
> >    print;
> > }
> >
> > The result works decently well (This still won't handle things like
> > http://wwwcsif.cs/). Now I just have to set all my web
> > browsers to use that proxy.
> >
> > I run all my own servers because I trust nobody.
> >
> > On that note, does anybody know of a free replacement for nntpcache
> > that they've gotten to work? I tried newscache but couldn't make it
> > work.
> >
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