Re: Spaces in ACL values

3. define a sane overall syntax, ignoring backwards compatibility, and
supply a translation tool which can be invoked as a filter
automatically if a legacy syntax is detected.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Marcus Kool
<marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/13/2012 07:16 PM, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>
>> 2) Add squid.conf directives to turn the new parsing behavior on and off
>> for a section of the configuration file. This is also 100% backward
>> compatible but difficult to introduce gradually -- admins will expect
>> everything inside a "quoted strings" section to support quoted strings,
>> and I am not 100% sure we can easily support that because different
>> options use different token parsers.
>>
>> # start new quoting support section
>> configuration_value_parser quoted_strings
>> # now just use the new quoting support
>> acl badOne1 user_cert CN "Bad Guy"
>> acl badOne2 ext_user "Bad Guy"
>>
>> # restore backward-compatible mode
>> configuration_value_parser bare_tokens
>> acl oldOne user_cert CN One" "Two and Four"
>
>
> 2b) Add squid.conf directives _at the beginning_ of the conf file
> to specify the parser behavior. So do not toggle and force the admin
> to be aware of quoted strings and _must_ check the whole config file
> himself.
> The default value of "config_used_quoted_strings" is "off".
> This is still 100% backwards compatible without doing lots (?) of effort
> to please everybody and every situation.
>
> Marcus

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