squid proxy error 403 tcp how to fix

ubuntu proxy ubuntu-14.04 squid http-proxy
Ajmal khan jamro picture Ajmal khan jamro · Mar 30, 2016 · Viewed 17k times · Source

hello guys i am installing squid as HTTP proxy for scraping urls from google with a tool i have configured every thing but when i am connecting to squid it is giving tcp 403 error i have ubuntu14.04 and i have not changed its default settings just change HTTP_access deny all to allow and all are same i want to use that proxy for scraping purpose what should be config file of it please help me out searching stuff from more then 2 days now.

http_port 3128

refresh_pattern ^ftp:           1440    20%     10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher:        1440    0%      1440
refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0     0%      0
refresh_pattern .               0       20%     4320

acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8     # RFC 1918 possible internal network
acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12  # RFC 1918 possible internal network
acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 possible internal network
acl localnet src fc00::/7       # RFC 4193 local private network range
acl localnet src fe80::/10      # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines

acl SSL_ports port 443          # https

acl Safe_ports port 80          # http
acl Safe_ports port 21          # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443         # https
acl Safe_ports port 70          # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210         # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535  # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280         # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488         # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591         # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777         # multiling http

acl CONNECT method CONNECT

http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localhost manager
http_access deny manager
http_access allow localnet
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all

Answer

Cleber Reizen picture Cleber Reizen · Jan 18, 2017

Error 403 means Forbidden Access.

Change last line in your question: 

http_access deny all

to

http_access allow all

This is basically changing your policy from blacklist (deny all sites) to whitelist (allow access to all sites). So you should add your acl above it.

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