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Arvind
Asked: 2012-02-11 05:21:53 +0800 CST

how to make squid work like proxy only, without caching anything [duplicate]

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How to prevent squid from caching and just filter?

I want to make squid work purely as a proxy, so that it does not cache anything.

Is such a usage of squid possible? How do I do this?

I am using v3.1 of Squid on Cent OS 6.2- x86 edition.

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  1. Best Answer

    This is straight out of the Squid FAQ:

    Can I make Squid proxy only, without caching anything?

    Sure, there are few things you can do.

    You can use the cache access list to make Squid never cache any response:

    cache deny all

    With Squid-2.7, Squid-3.1 and later you can also remove all 'cache_dir' options from your squid.conf to avoid having a cache directory.

    With Squid-2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0 you need to use the "null" storage module:

    cache_dir null /tmp

    Note: a null cache_dir does not disable caching, but it does save you from creating a cache structure if you have disabled caching with cache. The directory (e.g., /tmp) must exist so that squid can chdir to it, unless you also use the coredump_dir option.

    To configure Squid for the "null" storage module, specify it on the configure command line:

    --enable-storeio=null,...
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