Re: [squid-users] Patch to squid-2.4

Well,
I could not find the patch in the source code for squid-2.4.
We need to make squid read any message that is sent after the ERR (actually
my patch requires a space after the ERR and before the message) by the
EXTERNAL authenticator and then display it on the appropriate error page. I
have the patch for squid-2.4 and would like to know if the users think that
is a good feature for squid. If so, I can send the patch (here in our
company we have been running squid-2.4 with the patch for the last 15 days
with no problems reported so far). If, on the other side, there is no
interest in this feature by the squid users/community, I will just keep the
patch for our company and for every new release of squid I will have the
patch added to the code.
Any comments/opinions are welcome.
Thanks,
Marcos Barreto de Castro

>From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
>To: Marcos Castro <mbdecastrobr@hotmail.com>
>CC: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Patch to squid-2.4
>Date: 04 Sep 2001 21:55:12 +1000
>
>On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 21:48, Marcos Castro wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some time ago, I sent a patch to make it possible for squid to display
>on
> > the error page any message being returned by an external authenticator
>in
> > case of authentication failure and it was, at the time, patched, with
>some
> > changes, to squid-2.3, as explained below by Duane Wessels. In spite of
> > being said that the patch had been commited to squid HEAD branch, I did
>not
> > see it in squid-2.4...
>
>I believe its in there, in modified form. Certainly the capability to
>send messages from the authentication code to the error page exists.
>
> > Has it really been added to squid-2.4.* ?
> > If not, are there plans to have it added to squid-2.4*? When? Will it be
> > available in every new release from now on?
>
>2.5 has a rewritten set of authentication code. That capability exists
>there as well, but few messages are generated. For the basic auth
>scheme, text after the OK or ERR is still ignored IIRC. The NTLM scheme
>doesn't send messages back (it can though), and for the digest scheme,
>the authentication helper doesn't actually test the user credentials, so
>the helper can't really produce text to send back, although the digest
>scheme can certainly do so.
>
>Rob
>

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Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 08:14:12 MDT