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

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:38:29PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:38:24AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2008, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > 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?
> >
> > Nope, but you have to figure out how to get the browser to always present
> > the cookie, regardless of domain.
>
> Ah, ok, I _was_ naive for that.

Hm, otoh, Squid could set the cookie anew for each new host name being
accessed. That way, an unmodified client would correctly send back the
cookie, and there would only be an identd request for each new host
name being accessed instead of for every http request.

Greetings
Marc

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