On 07/02/2013 03:00 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On 3/07/2013 1:26 a.m., Alex Rousskov wrote: >> On 07/02/2013 02:34 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote: >>> On 2/07/2013 6:33 p.m., Blason wrote: >>>> I know squid support X-Forwarded-For but keen to know if I can use >>>> X-Forwarded-User so that user authenticated with Proxy can have >>>> filtering >>>> done on other Application Control box placed in front of Proxy. And >>>> Proxy can only be used for caching functionality >>> No. >> I have not tested it, but is not X-Forwarded-User supported via >> request_header_add with an appropriate logformat macro in the value? > Only for sending. The question was about support for receiving and > interpreting. I probably interpreted "in front" the wrong way, sorry. Well, Squid can certainly receive that header and a Squid helper or adapter can interpret it, even providing authentication-like capability if needed. Please note that I am not trying to defend the use of that header for anything, just indicating that some related functionality is available even though Squid itself does not treat X-Forwarded-User specially. Cheers, Alex.
