Thanks Amos. I didn't realize that %>ha{} was a valid format. -- Aaron Turner https://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. -- Frank Herbert, Dune On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 26/08/17 09:42, Alex Rousskov wrote: >> >> On 08/25/2017 10:37 AM, Aaron Turner wrote: >>> >>> Followup: I tried %{My-Custom-Client-Id}>h with 3.5.26 and squid >>> errors out. Looking at the 3.5.x docs >>> >>> (http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/cfgman/external_acl_type.html), >>> nothing there indicates it supports the logformat method? Looks like >>> that's a 4.0+ feature? > > > It seems I forgot to do the documentation changes in 3.4 or 3.5 to follow > the code changes in 3.3. > > As recompense I shall dedicate some time into adding back-compat code for > Squid-4+ so that it accepts the 3.5 documented syntax. The Squid-2 syntax is > not possible to do in the new code. Which IIRC was a big reason for the slow > staged rollout plan, hoping not to need back-compat here. Sorry for the > muckup. > >> >> Apparently v3.5 is still using those custom format codes for external >> ACLs (i.e., codes that differ from "standard" logformat codes). I did >> not realize that. Sorry. >> > > The custom parser back in Squid-3.3.7 was prepared for logformat codes when > the logformat syntax was only %code{parameters}. > > > squid -k parse for me with the old options produces: > WARNING: external_acl_type format %{...} is being replaced by %>ha{...} > for %{test} > WARNING: external_acl_type format %>{...} is being replaced by %>ha{...} > for %>{test} > > and accepts %>ha{test} > > > Notice that the old %{...} and %>{...} send the *adapted* request headers to > the helper, not the original client headers. To distinguish the real client > headers from adapted ones you do need the proper logformat codes in > Squid-4+. > > > Amos > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users