Re: [squid-users] How to do? authentication and ip-range

"Tushar Gupta" <tushar@surevin.net> writes:

> Also is it possible to generate both start of session and end of session
> records using squid using any authentication mechanism. I am looking
> forward to do accounting based on number of hours of usage.

HTTP is inherently a stateless protocol and the client authenticates
to the proxy for every request. So there is no session or "end of
session". You can kludge things together on the basis of considering
each 5 minute period with at least one request part of an ongoing
session etc. but accounting based on the number of bytes transferred
seems more appropriate.

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