On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Knipe wrote: > > >Basically, what happens is that squid prompts for my username and > >password, yet, > >after I enter them, squid just sits there. Error log / access log shows > >nothing, > >and the browser eventually times out. This is with squid 2.5-STABLE9 > > The usual cause to this is if you forgot to disable output buffering in > your custom authenticator program. The UNIX libc by default buffers > output. > > In perl: > > $|=1; > Hendrik, You're not going to believe me, but I have tried that.... Originally, the script did have buffering off... Enabled / Disabled, still the same. The *entire* script with confidential stuff removed... use Mysql; use Sys::Syslog; use strict; use warnings; ############################################################################### ### Constants & Variables ### ############################################################################### use constant DBHost => "DBHOST"; use constant DBName => "DBNAME"; use constant DBUser => "DBUSER"; use constant DBPass => "DBPASS"; ############################################################################### ### Code Starts ### ############################################################################### # Disable output buffering $|=1; my $GlobalDB = Mysql->connect(DBHost, DBName, DBUser, DBPass); $GlobalDB->{'GlobalDB'}->{'PrintError'} = 0; if ($GlobalDB) { # This is the main loop for authentication requests while (<STDIN>) { syslog('info', 'Received: ', $_); chop($_); my @Info = split(/ /, $_); my $SQL = $GlobalDB->query("SELECT CustData.isProxy AS Validated FROM CustData LEFT JOIN SquidUsers ON CustData.EntryID=SquidUsers.CustID WHERE SquidUsers.isActive='y' AND SquidUsers.Qouta > 100 AND CustData.isProxy='y' AND CustData.isActive='y' AND CustData.DebtCode='" . $Info[0] . "' AND CustData.Password='" . $Info[1] . "'"); if ($SQL->numrows != 1) { print "ERR\n"; } else { print "OK\n"; } } } else { syslog('info', 'Dataconnection failed'); } What is scaring, is that I have absolutely NOTHING reported by syslog.... -- Chris.