Re: [squid-users] a urgent query

Robert Collins wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@marasystems.com>
> To: "hemant maehta" <hemant_tgm@rediffmail.com>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] a urgent query
>
> > This is not something you easily can do with Squid as Squid does not
> > keep accounting on how "long" a user has been using the Internet.
> >
> > You can do something like this by using proxy authentication with a
> > short credentials TTL, and have the authenticator keep accounting on
> how
> > much time the user has spent.
> >
> > In future, a similar approach may be possible via the upcoming
> > external_acl interface.
>
> Also, I intend to add supporting functionality to the squid user cache -
> but that is low on my todo wishlist.

Questionable if it makes much use in the user cache. This form of
accounting needs to be quite persistent, and the user cache is not
really...

Keep in mind that if you add such functionality to the user cache, then
it is only a matter of minutes before someone wants to use this to limit
Internet time to X hours per month, and I assume you see the problem
then...

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 08:21:55 MDT