Re: [squid-users] logging ident while avoiding an ident lookup for each request

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:13:35AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Is there already an off-the shelf solution? Could squid send back an
> > identification cookie to the client application and use that cookie to
> > identify the user from then on, repeating the ident request like, once
> > a minute?
>
> uhm, the problem again is how to patch the client to identify itself
> with this cookie.

Am I too naive when I think that a simple http cookie would be enough?

> The solution is negotiate, basic or ntlm authentication. They store an
> auth cookie and send it along with requests. :)

Having the client ask for a username/password is not acceptable for
the site.

Greetings
Marc

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