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

["Ryan Lamberton" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ryan Lamberton" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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