Re: [squid-users] accelerating basic authentication pages

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but this will also allow non-authorized users to request cached objects
from the cache..

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Cosenza, Mario wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got 2 machines. One running Squid (2.4S1) in accelerator mode. And the
> other running Apache (1.3.19). like this...
> 
>    Web Client -> Squid -> Apache
> 
> I have some files (mp3) located in an Apache directory which uses basic
> authentication (.htaccess) to prevent unauthorized access.
> 
> Squid will *not* cache the data in this 'protected' directory.
> 
> Squid *will* cache the data if I move it to an 'unprotected' directory.
> 
>   Is there a way around this?
> 
>   Would it be bad to allow this?
>   (i.e. will people be able to get data from the cache without having to
> authenticate to Apache?)
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Mario