Re: [squid-users] authentication / acl

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Knipe wrote:

> Basically, what happens is that squid prompts for my username and password, yet,
> after I enter them, squid just sits there. Error log / access log shows nothing,
> and the browser eventually times out. This is with squid 2.5-STABLE9

The usual cause to this is if you forgot to disable output buffering in
your custom authenticator program. The UNIX libc by default buffers
output.

In perl:

  $|=1;

In C:

  setbuf(stdout, NULL);

Other languages may require similar actions.

Note: shell scripts do not buffer their output.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 06:00:20 MDT