Remove Squid footer completely

Removing the version number from the footer is very easy.

In squid.conf enable

httpd_suppress_version_string

But what if you want to remove the whole message.

Generated Thu, 08 Jun 2000 06:58:30 GMT by proxy1.proxy.com (Squid/2.6.STABLE1)

There is no configuration available to remove it but you can always edit the source file for that and recompile it. Don't worry its very easy. Easy because its really easy.

Just follow the following steps:

Go to squid source. /usr/src/squid/src

Backup the existing file errorpage.c cp ./errorpage.c ./errorpage.c.bkp

Remove errorpage.o rm errorpage.o

Edit the file errorpage.c vim errorpage.c

{

ERR_SQUID_SIGNATURE,

"\n<\BR clear=\"all\">\n"

"<\HR noshade size=\"1px\">\n"

"

\n"

"Generated %T by %h (%s)\n"

"

\n"

"<\/BODY><\/HTML>\n"

}

Remove the line "Generated %T by %h (%s)\n"

Save and exit :wq

Reconfigure squid with old options ./configure .........

Make clean make clean

Make make

Make all make all

Make install make install

Stop squid /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k shutdown

Start squid /usr/local/squid/sbin