Re: splay-userauth (was: RE: transfer-encoding)

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:19:22 +0100

Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:

> Robert and I are discussing some extensions to that, centering
> about how to better implement an acl/http_access check that
> will match against users credentials, WITHOUT requiring the users
> to authenticate if there are no credentials.

I had that once in a time. However I opted to not make use of it as it
made access lists even harder to grok for people.

> - a no_log option, allowing squid not to log some requests.
> (i.e. you might not want to log accesses from SOME users).

That you can do today by adding a log_access option..

> - an auth-system by which users are required to access a certain URL
> to authenticate.

This too is fully possible today by making sure the accesses are allowed
before a using a ACL requiring credentials.

> I believe these can wait until after we do the branch-shuffling in
> preparation for 2.4 though.

We are past that already. 2.4 has branched off and the HEAD is open for
developments.

/Henrik
Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 14:30:45 MST

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