Re: [squid-users] Http_accel mode, authentication of multiple hos ts?

I want to know your opinion on a brainstorm session, me , myself and I
had...

My central accelarator host is named: www.mycompany.com
the others are: server1.mycompany.com
                       server2.mycompany.com
etc etc.

What If I created a redirect (with squirm or..) so that the requests from
the users had to be:

www.mycompany.com/server1
www.mycompany.com/server2

So all my xxx.mycompany.com (if not www) would be redirected to
www.company.com/xxxx

This would then mean only 1 times authenticate? right?

> This is a limitation of HTTP authentication. You log in individually to
> each host and realm requested by that host.
>
> Does not matter if you are using Squid in acceleration mode, or any
> standard HTTP server. This limitation is in HTTP.
>
> To work around this some systems/sites make use of cookie based login
> mechanisms. Squid does not have any cookie based authentication
> mechanism.
>
> >
> > Here is my question:
> >
> > I run the accelerator as a virtual host.
> > My users need to authenticate for ALL individual hosts. Is there a way
> > around this?
> > (If no, they have bad luck..)
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 16:25:26 MDT