Re: [SQU] Perl authentication

I have an old patch which changes the helper protocol to use URL escaped
strings.

See http://squid.sourceforge.net/hno/patch-devel.html
(in the merge conflicts section...)

/Henrik

Robert Collins wrote:
>
> Yes. See
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200007/0491.html
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200007/0495.html
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200007/0496.html
>
> For a previous discussion.
>
> There used to be an example perl script on the squid-cache site, but I must be going blind :-]
>
> Quick points:
>
> 1. I've just checked the basic auth code, and I think you'll be able to get away with usernames with spaces within the squid code.
> (as long as the space is not at the end of the username).
> 2. Squid writes the user details as "username password\n" to the authenticator. If you expect to handle usernames with spaces, your
> perl authenticator will have to do some fancy checking to tell the difference between user=foo bar password=tux and user=foo
> password=bar tux. If you want to have squid delimit the usernames differently, say with a ':' then it's a quick edit in
> authenticate.c (for squid 2.3/2.4) in the funciton authenticateStart.

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