I suggest filing a squid bugzilla bug. I'm not sure what the limits are but I bet they're compile-time at the moment. On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Glenn Zazulia wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 on Redhat & Windows, configured in a chain > of peers with custom auth & external acl helpers that manipulate the > proxyauth credentials/header. This works fine when the user:passwd > string is less than 256 bytes (prior to base64-encoding), but I noticed > that squid truncates anything larger than that. I didn't find any > stated header size limit in the RFCs (2616, etc.), and I'm wondering if > this is an arbitrary, static limit imposed by squid? If at all > possible, I need to increase that limit to 1 KB, and I'm wondering if > this can be done without patching the source. I didn't see anything > obvious in the config file or the docs. > > Thanks for any assistance that you could provide. > > Glenn Zazulia -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -