Re: [squid-users] question on authenticate_ip_ttl

No, the directive operates in the opposite direction, forcing you to
reauthenitcate if coming from another IP.

To Squid your browser authenticates on each and every request. The fact
that you do not have to provide your username and password on each and
every request is because the browser caches your login information in
memory until you exit the browser. There is nothing Squid can do to
control this.

Regards
Henrik

Chandrasekhar KRISHNAN wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> By reading through the comments for the directive "authenticate_ip_ttl" in
> squid.conf, I got the impression that users from the same IP address
> won't be asked to reauthenticate (even for a new browser) for the TTL
> period. I set the TTL to 1 hour, but I'm asked to authenticate for every
> new browser I open.
>
> 1) Is this normal behavior?
> 2) I had authenticate_ip_ttl_is_strict turned on and Squid let me browse
> from two different machines with the same login, except for a few warnings
> in cache.log. What, then, is its purpose?
> 3) My objective is to get rid of the annoying authentication window every
> time I open a new browser. Is there a way to achieve this (without hacking
> the source)?
>
> I searched through the archives, but couldn't find a satisfactory
> answer. squid-2.4.STABLE2 on FreeBSD 4.4, MSNT authentication.
>
> Thanks,
> Chandrasekar
Received on Thu Apr 11 2002 - 16:23:59 MDT