Re: authenticate_ip_ttl confusion

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 13:56, Duane Wessels wrote:
> I'm trying to understand authenticate_ip_ttl. Its description in
> squid.conf leads me to believe that simply setting authenticate_ip_ttl
> to non-zero makes Squid deny some requests.
>
> However, reading the source code it seems that requests are
> only denied if a max_user_ip ACL is used (and matched).

The description is very out of date (it was out of date pre-auth rewrite
AFAICT). OOps!

Yes, the TTL is used in conjunction with max_user_ip. The code it
replaced was a hardcoded limit-of-1 ip which used to require the strict
option to be set to do anything much,

Rob