Re: Q: Client authentication via Squid

Dileep Agrawal wrote:
>
> We have setup an intranet with squid running on the proxy server.
> We would like to authenticate clients that try to access squid for
> web browsing and log the time they were connected to the proxy.
> Has anyone done this?

I would implement something like this using the following tools:

1. proxy_auth for authentication
2. Log file processing for usage statistics/accounting.

HTTP is "connectionless" in the sense that clients are only connected
while transferring objects.

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Henrik Nordström
Sparetime Suqid Hacker