Re: Adding a reset option to the session helper

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:49 +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> tis 2011-09-27 klockan 07:32 +0100 skrev Andrew Beverley:
>
> > I'd like to find a way around this. The best way that I can think of is
> > to add an option to the session helper, to specify a URL that must be
> > present for the timeout to reset. This URL would then be contained in
> > the "continue" button on the splash page.
>
> See the active mode which is intended for this kind of explicit session
> start.

Thanks Henrik. That looks spot on.

>
> The URL match is done using Squid acls.
>

Could you point me in the direction of how to do this please? Looking at
the documentation for the external_acl_type it states that "any string
specified in the referencing acl will also be included in the helper
request line". Is that the way to achieve it? Something like this?

external_acl_type session concurrency=100 ttl=3 %SRC /usr/lib/squid3/ext_session_acl -a -T 10800 -b /var/lib/squid/session.db
acl existing_users external session
acl aclname urlpath_regex -i a_url_that_must_be_clicked LOGIN
deny_info http://nelsonwr.wardroom/announce.php?url=%s existing_users
http_access deny !existing_users expiry

(Sorry, I would just try it out myself, but I don't have a squid
instance to hand, and I want to get this up and running as soon as I get
back!)

Thanks,

Andy
Received on Fri Sep 30 2011 - 19:07:46 MDT