Re: [SQU] Limitations

Your problem is that Squid cannot correcly parse a config file with
spaces in the user name.

Attached is a small patch which should allow you to write the username
using URL escaping syntax (%20 for space)

   login=first%20last-name:password

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Devin Teske wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm hitting major limitations here with squid. The fact that it can't handle
> usernames for an upstream proxy with spaces in it, that you can't set a
> fallback authentication proxy, and the fact that you can't set up you users
> in a database, is hampering my project.
> 
> The only way I can see myself of getting over those limitations is if I knew
> how to program in C++ and reprogram parts of squid and/or helper
> applications.
> 
> So, is there anything more powerful than squid (one preferrably that has
> those features)? I need something! ((Delagate? Proxy Soft?))
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Devin Teske
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Index: cache_cf.c
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RCS file: /server/cvs-server/squid/squid/src/cache_cf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.371
diff -u -w -r1.371 cache_cf.c
--- cache_cf.c 2001/01/25 23:01:56 1.371
+++ cache_cf.c 2001/01/28 00:44:42
@@ -1232,6 +1232,7 @@
 #endif
         } else if (!strncasecmp(token, "login=", 6)) {
             p->login = xstrdup(token + 6);
+ rfc1738_unescape(p->login);
         } else if (!strncasecmp(token, "connect-timeout=", 16)) {
             p->connect_timeout = atoi(token + 16);
 #if USE_CACHE_DIGESTS

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