Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header question

hmm... is there an example of a "silly helper" out there I can use/modify?
And will the Ident acl "set" the username the same way the proxy_auth does
so my filtering program can identify the username? Why should I disable
client side persistent connections?

Thank you very much for the help.

Ryan Lamberton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Ryan Lamberton" <ryan@familink.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header
question

> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Ryan Lamberton wrote:
>
>> I have a question on external_acl_type -- I think. I have Squid 2.5
>> stable 3 setup and use propel accelerator to pass the header HTTP_X_PUN
>> with the username that authenticated in propel. What I want to have
>> happen is that username passed from Propel to be used by squid for
>> proxy_auth.
>
> Ok. As you suspect this can (almost) be done with external_acl_type.
>
> What you need is
>
> a) A silly helper echoing the username back to Squid. This helper will be
> given the username from the header as input by Squid.
>
> b) You need to use the ident acl, not proxy_auth. And should also disable
> client side persistent connections when doing this (the 2.5 implementation
> piggy backs on the ident user name which is connection oriented...)
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Fri May 06 2005 - 16:28:38 MDT