Re: [squid-users] Password for downloading

Squid does not know the difference between downloading or displaying. In
both cases the content is sent to the requestor in exacly the same way,
as a response to a request looking exacly the same way.

What you can do is to require authentication for accessing certain URL
patterns, such as

   ftp://.*
   \.exe$
   \.zip$
   \.gz$
   \.bz2$
   \.mp3$
   ...

See http_access, acl url_regex, acl proxy_auth, authentication_program.

In Squid-2.5 there will also be access controls that can look into the
reply from the server (i.e. to allow matching mime types, reply sizes
and such), but I don't think it is a very good idea to use proxy_auth in
such a configuration without also requiring it in http_access before the
request is sent to the origin server..

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
senthil wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I am having a peculiar situation which requires me to give a passwords only
> for downloading. The problem here is I dont use any sort of ACL groups or
> anything. Is it possible to enable the squid to ask for a password before it
> lets any one in my network to download some files. Or should I use some
> other sort of patches or some thing. Please can anyone advise me about this.
> I want to do this to prevent my users from downloading huge files which is
> chocking my bandwidth.
> 
> regards
> 
> senthil