Re: [squid-users] ProxyAuth credentials size limit

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:33:40 +0900

I suggest filing a squid bugzilla bug. I'm not sure what the limits
are but I bet they're compile-time at the moment.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Glenn Zazulia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 on Redhat & Windows, configured in a chain
> of peers with custom auth & external acl helpers that manipulate the
> proxyauth credentials/header. This works fine when the user:passwd
> string is less than 256 bytes (prior to base64-encoding), but I noticed
> that squid truncates anything larger than that. I didn't find any
> stated header size limit in the RFCs (2616, etc.), and I'm wondering if
> this is an arbitrary, static limit imposed by squid? If at all
> possible, I need to increase that limit to 1 KB, and I'm wondering if
> this can be done without patching the source. I didn't see anything
> obvious in the config file or the docs.
>
> Thanks for any assistance that you could provide.
>
> Glenn Zazulia

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