Re: [squid-users] Helper

On tis, 2008-11-11 at 13:01 -0600, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:

> now, I have a situation. Because here we must use digest auth, not all
> applications are aware of this. And many users are complaining about
> applications. I was thinking of a external helper that let an IP without
> authentication works to squid. That IP must be related to username, so if
> user logsout (after timeout of login) then that IP would be closed.
>
> Does anyone has done this or can you give me some basic ideas to programm it.

Sounds like a good extension to the session helper.

Note: Squid-2.7 has a similar authentication cache built in. See
authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_*

Regards
Henrik