Dear Roma,
If you want to authenticate users through a captive portal mechanism you should think to IP Address as user identity. Although it is possible to implement a cookie-based authentication but it is more complex and needs to detailed explanation.
Regards,
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From: "roma.a.g@xxxxxxxxx" <roma.a.g@xxxxxxxxx>
To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:16:09 PM
Subject: What is the best way to authenticate remote users with dynamic ip?
Hello, list.
I want to setup public proxy, that will serve clients from anywhere, after registration.
I will setup captive portal for authorization/registration and external authenticator,
that will check user validity, and redirect unauthorizated to captive portal.
I guess that simple basic/digest auth will be better choice, but I want to use captive portal,
so its no option for me, alas.
So I need some kind of session authentication.
For now I'm stick to cookie authentication, but not sure if it possible.
I can configure captive portal to set cookie and external helper to check for it,
but I believe client will not send that cookie until squid ask him,
and squid will not, are not he? What can I do it that case?
Is there any better way, to approach my target?
Thanks in advance, Roma.
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