Re: [squid-users] Accelerator with authentication user changed?

Henk-Jan Kloosterman wrote:
>
> >
> > What you can do (but not yet possible in Squid) is to first authenticate
> > on SSL by using SSL certificates, and then authenticate in HTTP using
> > username+password.
>
> Is it correct that you are planning on implementing this?

No immediate plans, but it is on the todo as soon as I (or one of my
customers) have a demand for it.

> > then let the accelerator authenticate to the real server using
> > a) The same username+password
> > b) The same username, but a static (secret) password for all users
> > c) A static (secret) username+password
>
> I suppose I must use a redirector to do this?

Not at all. See the login cache_peer option.

(yes, you can build accelerators using cache_peer. This will be much
more obvious in Squid-2.6, maybe even required)

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker