[wellylug] Squid proxy error with Qantas website

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <CF14FC1C-13FE-40F2-9C05-FEAC572043D9 at stress-free.co.nz>, David Harrison writes:
>Is there a setting in Squid to make it not cache www.qantas.com.au/*  url's?

You'll want something like this:

acl qantas dstdomain www.qantas.com.au
no_cache deny qantas

in your squid.conf.

However beware that the Qantas site has historically been fairly badly
implemented, especially http://www.qantas.co.nz/ after the local company
ran out of money and Qantas Australia took it over again.  In particular
(at least at one stage), they required a combination of cookies and URL
redirects to make http://www.qantas.com.au/ look as if it was
http://www.qantas.co.nz/; and without the right set lots of stuff
wouldn't work.  It's also only in the last 6 months or so that their
menus have been displaying correctly in Mozilla (they seemed to have a
lot of "only happens to work on IE" coding it it); I did complain about
it a few years ago, but their IT department didn't seem especially
interested in fixing it/on top of the problems.

You may be better bypassing squid (eg, in your browser configuration)
for all Qantas sites if you want to double check it's not a Qantas
website issue.  (While it worked reasonably well for me up until a
couple of months ago, it wouldn't surprise me if they'd broken it again.)

Ewen