Re: [squid-users] squid and firefox

Thanks for your reply Henrik.

Problem is I've disabled popups completely. The other thing about cache
and stuff .. I've disabled caching now.

That's exactly I was worried about - tying browser closely to the squid.
Maybe I should try a timer which queries a mysql database (one used by
my squid ext auth) and display one on the client.

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 15:01, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2004, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>
> > Now I want the browser to display a timer. How do I do it please? Since
> > this timer has to synchronise with a successful login.. I guess I'll
> > have to hack firefox code.
>
> Or you could use a "start of session" page (see earlier thread) and have
> this open a small popup window showing the timer. The timer as such can
> easily be syncronised with your backend keeping track of when the login
> expires..
>
> > Second thing is if a user has forgotten to log out of a say yahoo or
> > hotmail account, I don't want the next customer to read the previous
> > customers emails etc.
>
> Make sure the browser is fully restarted between customers, and that the
> cookie, history, urlbar and browser cache is cleared. Any of these may
> contain sensitive information which you (or your customers) do not want to
> be leaked between customers.
>
> This is mostly a logistics question. How to detect that one person leaves
> and another comes to the same station.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Sat Apr 24 2004 - 12:55:35 MDT