Re: [squid-users] NTLM_auth and usernames with spaces and %20 in log file.

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:40:19 +1000

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 07:30, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
> I am using NTLM_auth to authenticate users against an nt domain. All of the
> users on the nt domain are in the form of firstname lastname e.g. charlie
> grosvenor this is causing problems as squid seems to write the log files
> with a %20 instead of a space e.g.

This is by design. It's encoded according to rfc1738, and without that
you wouldn't be able to safely parse the log file.

If sarg is showing the usernames with %20, you could teach sarg to
decode the username field before showing it.

Cheers,
Rob

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