Re: Needing state in NTLMSSP

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 21:38, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> tor 2003-01-16 klockan 10.44 skrev Robert Collins:
>
> > V2 is the helper-squid revision 2 protocol I think. We had exactly the
> > interface Andrew suggests back in the early days. It's actually a
> > straight forward case of removing optimisations to get what he needs.
>
> Then we are talking about two different things here.
>
> My proposal involves both a complete abstraction of NTLM from Squid
> moving the full responsibility of NTLM processing down to the helper and
> also quite significant changes to get rid of the limitation in number of
> helpers, allowing NTLM to run with a single helper if you like (assuming
> good connectivity to your backend). The only thing Squid is required is
> to keep connectivity state between client connection and helper.

We are much of the way there already, and doing what Andrew needs will
get us closer to that.

I think allowing some caching like we have today is good, and that does
need NTLM knowledge, but not all that much.

Rob

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