Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header question

It works! Thank you! Just one more question (more in the programming
area). The accelerator sends the username in base64. Can I use the
ident.sh to convert it to "English" before echoing it back? If so, what I
would I use for the code to accomplish it.

Thank you
Ryan Lamberton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Ryan Lamberton" <ryan@familink.com>
Cc: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>; "Squid Users"
<squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header
question

>
>
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ryan Lamberton wrote:
>
>> Still not working...OK I have:
>>
>> external_acl_type propel_header_auth %{Hdr:member} /etc
>> /squid/ident.sh x-pun:user
>>
>> #
>> Is the "%{Hdr:member}" exactly what I need there? And is
>> "x-pun:user" needed on the end (x-pun is the header name)?
>> How is the header looked up and passed to the ident.sh program?
>
> Then you should use
>
> %{x-pun}
>
> The %{header:member} thing is if you for example want the cache-control
> max-age parameter value. The format is then %{Cache-control:max-age}
>
>> acl propel_auth external propel_header_auth x-pun
>
> You don't need any arguments in the acl unless you want these to be sent
> to the helper in addition to the format string details.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Tue May 10 2005 - 12:34:01 MDT