Re: Squid: Passing url to authenticator

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:29:46 +0200

I think you should get in touch with Dancer. He has made something along
these lines.

I don't expect mainstream Squid to accept such a change to
authenticators since it would prevent caching of user credentials, and
caching is badly needed for many of the authenticators contacting other
authentication servers, or a Squid proxy could easily overload the
backend authentication server (not to mention the added latency which
for some methods can be a second or more).

What I think could be accepted to mainstream Squid distribution is
perhaps an process based ACL type which calls an external access control
process.

/Henrik

Wade Komisar wrote:
>
> Henrik:
>
> I am about to hack on Squid big time to enable the url to be passed to
> my authentication module along with userid and password. But, before I
> do, I want to check to make sure you or someone else on the Squid squad
> had not done such a hack already. If so, could you pass me the code.
> If not, would you accept my hack to be placed in the Squid distribution?
>
> Wade
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