Re: [squid-users] Http_accel mode, authentication of multiple hos ts?

Ah, I see you are starting to investigate the more beautiful aspects of
Squid accelerators :-)
(being able to build a virtual web site of multiple real servers).

This will do, but you may have some problems with internal redirects
generated by your servers.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Henk-Jan Kloosterman wrote:
>
> I want to know your opinion on a brainstorm session, me , myself and I
> had...
>
> My central accelarator host is named: www.mycompany.com
> the others are: server1.mycompany.com
> server2.mycompany.com
> etc etc.
>
> What If I created a redirect (with squirm or..) so that the requests from
> the users had to be:
>
> www.mycompany.com/server1
> www.mycompany.com/server2
>
> So all my xxx.mycompany.com (if not www) would be redirected to
> www.company.com/xxxx
>
> This would then mean only 1 times authenticate? right?
>
> > This is a limitation of HTTP authentication. You log in individually to
> > each host and realm requested by that host.
> >
> > Does not matter if you are using Squid in acceleration mode, or any
> > standard HTTP server. This limitation is in HTTP.
> >
> > To work around this some systems/sites make use of cookie based login
> > mechanisms. Squid does not have any cookie based authentication
> > mechanism.
> >
> > >
> > > Here is my question:
> > >
> > > I run the accelerator as a virtual host.
> > > My users need to authenticate for ALL individual hosts. Is there a way
> > > around this?
> > > (If no, they have bad luck..)
Received on Fri Oct 19 2001 - 01:15:02 MDT