Re: [squid-users] Re: Logging/Blocking URLs with question marks ?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> >>I don't know much about 2.5 but in up-to-date versions, logging of query
> >>urls is governed by "strip_query_terms". By default it's on to avoid
> >>logging things like session IDs.
> >
> >it's called privacy :)
>
> It's called philanthropy: protecting idiots against themselves at ones
> own cost.
>
> No webmaster with any serious intentions of privacy publishes the
> SESSION-IDs in visible URI. The sensible ones use session cookies,
> nicely hidden from script-kiddies eyes, easily removed by
> security-conscious users, and not getting in the way of smart users
> direct-linking.

It happens. Think "Java application session ids". I saw one today.
foo.com?SESSION_ID=${MD5}.

Thanks! No way to possibly cache that!

Adrian

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