Re: [squid-users] Make Dansguardian working with squid 3.2 + NTLM: Cannot initialise conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8

On 20/12/2011 11:50 p.m., David Touzeau wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I'm writing this topic here because it seems that the dansguardian
> mailing list is very silent.
>
> I have set squid 3.2 with nlm has this
>
> #--------- NTLM AUTH settings
> auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
> --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
> auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
> --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
> auth_param ntlm children 15
> auth_param basic children 15
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 5 hours
> auth_param basic casesensitive off
> auth_param basic realm Squid/NTLM proxy-caching web server
> authenticate_cache_garbage_interval 10 seconds
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hour
>
> authenticate_ttl 1 hour
>
> authenticate_ip_ttl 60 seconds
>
> ** The NTLM authentication with "only squid" works fine ***
>
> But, when adding dansguardian with proxy-ntlm plugin there is this error
>
>
> Dec 20 11:48:18 squid32-64 squid[22693]: storeLateRelease: released 0
> objects
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 squid[22693]: Starting new ntlmauthenticator
> helpers...
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 squid[22693]: helperOpenServers: Starting
> 1/15 'ntlm_auth' processes
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 dansguardian[22681]: NTLM - Cannot initialise
> conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8: Invalid argument
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 dansguardian[22681]: Auth plugin returned
> error code: -2
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 dansguardian[22681]: NTLM - Cannot initialise
> conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8: Invalid argument
> Dec 20 11:48:21 squid32-64 dansguardian[22681]: Auth plugin returned
> error code: -2
>
> Does anybody meet this issue ?
> What does "Cannot initialise conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 means" ?

You are the first to mention it. Although as you know, this mailing list
is not a DG support list. No matter how quiet those appears to be, that
is the right place to ask. The DG software is old and simple ==> not
many bugs or problems left to discuss in their lists ==> "quiet".

Amos
Received on Tue Dec 20 2011 - 11:13:34 MST