Squid and routing

Hello,

Who wants to shine some light here:

I have an application A that connects directly to say application B at
port 1234. B is a proxy program that forwards the message further to
other processes.

A ---> B (1234)

Now I want to use squid to have a proxy in between


A ---> squid (3128) ---> B (1234)

I can tell A to contact another proxy instead; suppose I use squid.
How can I configure squid so it will forward the request to B (1234).
In other words: how do I set routing within squid?

Squid is not the holy grail for me here. If some other proxy process
can do this I will be happy as well. Thanks a lot.

Best Regards,
Ton 't Lam

> Squid is not the holy grail for me here. If some other proxy process
> can do this I will be happy as well. Thanks a lot.

how about ssh port forwarding?

/dev/null wrote:
>>Squid is not the holy grail for me here. If some other proxy process
>>can do this I will be happy as well. Thanks a lot.
>
>
> how about ssh port forwarding?
>
>

Simplicity in extensio. Thanks a lot.

On 2004-11-29, Ton 't Lam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [snipped]
>
> I can tell A to contact another proxy instead; suppose I use squid.
> How can I configure squid so it will forward the request to B (1234).
> In other words: how do I set routing within squid?
>
> Squid is not the holy grail for me here. If some other proxy process
> can do this I will be happy as well. Thanks a lot.
>
A 'parent' (or is it 'child', I never can remember) proxy's is probably what
you are after in the squid.conf file. If your SSH session collapses (as
suggested) then you are cut off. I think in the squid.conf file you can set
up some kind of fall over and also you are then only relying on the
relibility of the parent proxy server rather than that in addition to the ssh
session.

Of course this kind of functionality exists in other proxy servers too.

Cheers

Alex