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Re: Unusual behaviour when linking ACLs to delay pools

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Richard Greaney <rkgreaney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This category are tested so often on high-speed pathways they can only use
>> the data immediately available in memory and will not do remote lookups for
>> auth or external helper results.
>>
>> They will *sometimes* be able to use cached in-memory results from previous
>> lookups. So the the "slow" category ACL types are not prohibited in "fast"
>> category access controls. But they are not guaranteed to work 100% of the
>> time either.
>>
>>
>> I suspect your http_access rules are different when testing for the two
>> groups. In such a way that the "throttled" ACL never gets tested in
>> http_access (causing its result to be cached for delay_Access).
>>
>>
>> My favorite hack for pre-caching these types of lookup results for later use
>> is to test the ACL by itself early in the config with !all tacked on the end
>> of the line (which prevents the line as a whole matching and doing the
>> allow/deny).
>
> Thanks! And you'd be dead right. That's exactly what was happening.
> The test against another group was succeeding as it had already been
> used for Internet access by proxy_auth.
>
> I now have another problem, however, in that it appears you can't AND
> multiple ACLs to determine whether or not they can access a delay
> pool. Say for instance, I wanted to do:
>
> delay_access 1 allow throttled badfiles
> delay_access 1 deny all
>
> This would throttle only when members of the 'throttled' acl attempt
> to download files in the 'badfiles' acl. I can apply the pool to one
> ACL or the other, but not both. I also tried getting cheeky and
> stacking multiple conditions into the ACL definition. eg:
>
> acl throttled urlpath_regex -i "/etc/squid/badfiles.txt"
> acl throttled external ldap_group Internet-Throttled
>
> But squid doesn't like mixing multiple conditions to make a single acl.
>
> Is there a workaround for this?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>
Ignore the last message. I was being an idiot. There's no need for any
workarounds. The following acl works fine:

delay_access 1 allow badfiles throttled
delay_access 1 deny all


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