SquidGuard Target Categories and Groups ACL Sorting Problem

[w.hackl]

Hi there ,
on PfSense 2.7.2 with Squid Package 0.4.46 and SquidGuard Package 1.16.19 the following problem occurs :
If you edit either Target Categories or Group ACL entries they are put on top of the list after saving the entry.
This behaviour is new to me and is a error so I think.

Could this be a incompatibility with the new php version used on 2.7.2 ?

Regards Wolfgang

[JonathanLee]

@w-hackl you have to edit them in order that you want, I have seen this, should make a redmine for it. Again I am happy it works the order issues was not a problem to me, I just edit them until I get the order I want.

Any time I edit anything I have to resave them each so I get my order back for target categories

[JonathanLee]

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15580

I opened a Redmine ticket for it, Squid right now does not have any maintainers for pfSense, so it might take a while to get fixed.

Bug #15580

@marcosm @MatthewA1
Have you also seen this when you fixed the php errors a couple years ago? MatthewA1 have you ever used Squid it’s a challenging set of code and has lots of puzzles if you want to attempt to maintain it with me, I take my C class next semester, I had to do many pre requisites to get to it so I should be able to help very soon with in the next year.

[JonathanLee]

Also I found a couple other bugs

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15410

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15381

[MatthewA1]

@JonathanLee I've not ever really used Squid, so not sure I would be much help. From the other thread, however, it seems like Squid itself is still maintained, it's just someone needs to take charge of it for pfSense specifically. I'm not sure what all problems it has working with pfSense right now, but probably that's more PHP frontend and configuration file generation stuff than C.

[JonathanLee]

@MatthewA1 yes it is all generic PHP based stuff, it’s updated just simple things like Squid changed how to access the status page, there is also an issue with certificates but I am still confused as what the underline change is that causes the errors.

It’s my favorite package you can do URL blocking and you can block specific sub URLs for websites, keywords all sorts of stuff. I am glad it is still accessible, again the developers of squid always respond to email questions also from the email server they have. My main concern is the status page.

I am so happy 6.6 is part of pfSense 24 however some small changes are made in 6.6

cache_object://URL Scheme is not removed in Squid-6
cache_object://hostname/request@password

Is used to check status inside the pfSense GUI for this package

It has been replaced with
http://hostname/squid-internal-mgr URL-prefix.

Therefore it will now say access denied when checking status

The status page needs to be updated to reflect the new URL scheme

I spoke with Squid user support and they have confirmed the new URL scheme.

Again thanks for taking the time to look at the NTP thing. I am taking a C class very soon I finally can enroll in it now.

Ref:
https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CacheManager/CacheObjectScheme

I have a redmine for this one open

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15410

[CZvacko]

@w-hackl said in SquidGuard Target Categories and Groups ACL Sorting Problem:

put on top of the list

I can confirm that, it didnt happen in 2.6.x ver and appear on 2.7.x