RE: [squid-users] redirection?

Here is the process we are trying to create.

1. User boots computer
2. opens browser (attempts to go to url)
3. Initial website displays
      Gives user option to Activate account or Login
4. New user activates account
      returns to initial page and logs in
5. Activated user logs in
6. They browse the net.

Is it possible (using more than 1 proxy server if necessary)?

When I turn on auth I get a dialog box requesting userid and passwd.
Can that page be modified to display disclaimer/login activation or is
that more work than its worth?

As you said Chris, just knowing that it is possible is half the battle.
Right now I'm looking for possibilities. I need to know I'm on the right
track or find out where the track is.

rick...
Rom.5:8

>>> Chris Perreault <Chris.Perreault@Wiremold.com> 7/15/2004 1:09:08 PM
>>>
Rick,

Logically map out what you'd like to have happen. I get stuck on this
one.
Define "initial", map all the steps out that you need to have occur.

I'm a user, and I input www.google.com into my browser. As an admin, do
you
want me to "initially" go to google or to this disclaimer page?

If the disclaimer page...ok, you can redirect www.google.com (or all
traffic) to go to the disclaimer page, but...it always will go there.
There
isn't a counter type thing that knows you already attempted google
once, so
the next time it should let really go to google.

I suppose, using the ACL's you could check against a userlist. If they
are
not in the list, then they get redirected to the signup/disclaimer
page.
This signup page/application needs to populate the "ok" userlist
quickly and
on the fly though. You need this site to always be accessable too.
Otherwise
if a user tried to reach a subpage within the disclaimer site, squid
would
again redirect them to the homepage of the disclaimer site.

I'm new at squid too, only been using it a month or so, and not in the
way
you want to use it either. Knowing something is possible is half the
battle
though, the rest is just figuring it out and making it go.

Chris Perreault
Webmaster/MCSE
The Wiremold Company
West Hartford, CT 06010
860-233-6251 ext 3426

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Whitley [mailto:rickwh@dbu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:51 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] redirection?

I need to have all traffic on our student network display an initial
website
for disclaimers and info. Would this be done through a redirector or
is
there an acl I am unaware of?

I am using squid 2.5.stable5.

thanks

rick...
Rom.5:8
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 12:30:44 MDT