Re: [squid-users] resend: squidGuard and/or authentication?

No, I am talking about the access controls built into Squid. See the acl
directive and http_access.

external_acl_type is about extending the built-in access controls with new
types of access controls.

REgards
Henrik

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Peter Smith wrote:

> Would the access controls you are talking of include using the
> "external_acl_type"? (http://squid.sourceforge.net/external_acl)
>
> I've toyed with the idea of using a script in an external acl which
> would consider URLs using squidGuard and provide ERR/OK based on that,
> with a combination of the "auth_param basic" and its associated ACL with
> poor results.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Peter Smith wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'm thinking of tearing up Squid 2.5.STABLE4 code to get this to work.
> >>Probably alter the basic authentication code: if the user is
> >>authenticated to the "NOBLOCK" group, then do not use the redirector
> >>(squidGuard.); if the user is not authenticated, then route traffic to
> >>the redirector; if the redirector indeed redirects it then process the
> >>authentication; if the user authenticates correctly then go back to the
> >>top and let them through; if the user fails authentication send them to
> >>the redirected page.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Use Squid access controls instead of SquidGuard and you get this
> >capability to selectively request authenticatoin for free.
> >
> >Regards
> >Henrik
> >
> >
> >
>
Received on Wed Mar 10 2004 - 07:51:42 MST