Re: [squid-users] proxy auth timeout config

On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:55 pm, Rolf wrote:
> hello
>
> Can someone clarify for me the squid config directives that control how
> long proxy auth credentials are kept for?
>
> I have basic auth working fine here and I think I set it up for re-auth
> every hour. But I have been noticing that sometimes one can go for days
> and in any event much longer than an hour before being asked for
> credentials again. The username is logged for proxy activity ok, its
> just not asking for auth as regularly as I expected. The only perfect
> way to get re-auth'd is to quit to restart the browser.

Are you sure this isn't the browser? AFAIK if you tell the browser to
remember your credentials it wont even display the auth dialogue box and
simply re-auth in the background. At least that's what Konqueror does and I'm
pretty sure Firefox/IE/Opera/Netscape do it the same way.

Cheers,

James
Received on Mon May 30 2005 - 17:32:35 MDT