What type of requests are forbidden?
You probably SHOULD NOT send non-GET requests to our caches. POST, PUT, and other non-GET request methods are not cachable by default, so there is little benefit for either you or us if you send those requests through our system. You MUST NOT send HTTPS (aka SSL) requests through the IRCache proxies. We used to accept SSL requests, but some dishonest people abused our service by relaying bogus transactions through our caches. Because of these transactions, we received many complaints about credit card fraud and threats of FBI involvement. Thus, we now must deny all SSL requests. You MUST NOT send requests containing only an IP address. For example: http://172.16.12.13/ We are now forced to reject such requests under the assumption that they come from HTTP-intercepted scanning activity. We have received some abuse complaints related to such requests. Note that we only reject IP-based URLs that have no pathname component. The example squid.
You probably SHOULD NOT send non-GET requests to our caches. POST, PUT, and other non-GET request methods are not cachable by default, so there is little benefit for either you or us if you send those requests through our system. You MUST NOT send HTTPS (aka SSL) requests through the IRCache proxies. We used to accept SSL requests, but some dishonest people abused our service by relaying bogus transactions through our caches. Because of these transactions, we received many complaints about credit card fraud and threats of FBI involvement. Thus, we now must deny all SSL requests. You MUST NOT send requests containing only an IP address. For example: http://172.16.12.13/ We are now forced to reject such requests under the assumption that they come from HTTP-intercepted scanning activity. We have received some abuse complaints related to such requests. Note that we only reject IP-based URLs that have no pathname component. The example squid.conf section below demonstrates how to configure
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