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I use a DD-WRT router at home. For a while I had a transparent proxy setup inside my home network. (Instructions Here)

I’ve upgraded the DD-WRT and my main file server/proxy server in the last month or so. In the process, I removed the proxy. I didn’t realize it until this morning.

I turned it back on and I started getting “INVALID REQUEST” errors. Seriously annoying.

Turns out you have to make some changes to your Squid config if you are using 2.6 (instead of 2.5 which was the standard on Dapper).

There is apparently a patch to handle this but it doesn’t seem to have made in to Edgy.

First change is that you now have to tell Squid you are doing a transparent proxy - so
http_port 3128
becomes

http_port 3128 transparent
And thanks to this post :
RE: [squid-users] Squid 2.6.STABLE1 invalid request
always_direct allow all

I realized I had to add another tag. Now the proxy is back up and the web is a little bit zippier.