On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Robert Dal Santo wrote:
> We have 15 or so regional child caches which are on WAN links. To access
> Internet content users must authenticate via the standard browser pop
> up. The regional caches pass any requests to access the Internet to the
> parent squid cache which takes care of authentication BEFORE the
> regional cache will deliver any content to the user. This happens even
> if the content is cached on the regional server. So no one can get
> Internet content unless they authenticate first.
How have you solved this today? The default of Squid is to deliver what is
in the local cache before asking parents..
> I have been told that the users authentication credentials CANNOT be passed
> from squid to WebMarshal to allow WebMarshal to authenticate the user.
I don't see any reason why you should not be able to solve the above with
WebMarshal if you have solved it with Squid, but to be honest I do not see
how you have solved this with Squid currently.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Dec 15 2004 - 17:20:43 MST
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