Re: Dynamic ACL Regex's associated with authenticated user

Thank you for quick response. Would you all recommend, for fastest
results, to review the source code/API for external helper, or is there
a document out there(in the big world) that gives technical details on this?

Thanks again!

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>mån 2007-02-05 klockan 13:13 -0500 skrev louis gonzales:
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>>Hello Dev team,
>>I'm curious, but have found limited information through different FAQ's
>>and archives about Squid functionality, which provides dynamic new
>>regex's to be checked against specific authenticated users?
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>Yes.
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>>Two functionalities I'm wondering about specifically:
>>1) Can Squid use a database server such as Postgres/MySQL to store the
>>ACL regex's or in genearl all ACL's, so that Squid can query on the fly?
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>Yes, but it requires an external helper talking to the database and
>matching the regex or whatever pattern type you use..
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>>2) Is it possible to associate 'authenticated users' to these ACL's?
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>Yes.
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>See the external_acl_type directive for how to plug in your own acl
>helper. Once active it works pretty much like any other kind of acl such
>as src/dst/dstdomain/url_regex etc.
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>There is an internal cache of the helper queries so it's most effective
>if you don't need the URL-path sent to the helper.
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>Regards
>Henrik
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>

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