Re: [squid-users] 3 questions about using squid as areverse proxy

From: Culley Harrelson <harrelson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:43:24 -0700

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:31:33 +0200 (CEST), Henrik Nordstrom
<hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
>
> > 2. We are doing basic authentication with the apache module
> > mod_auth_pgsql. This authentication against postgresql is resulting
> > in a lot of database activity. I read somewhere that squid will cache
> > authentication credentials. Does this work in reverse proxy mode?
>
> Yes, if you do the authentication on the reverse proxy.
>

using the squid authenticate_* directives I presume. Is it possible
to use authenticate_program to point to a custom script that does
database lookups? I am dealing with 50K users.

culley
Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 13:43:26 MDT

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