Re: [squid-users] ProxyAuth credentials size limit

Here's the bugzilla link to the bug:
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2139

On 12/13/2007 10:38 AM, Glenn Zazulia wrote:
> Yes, I think so, and I suspect that it's not a simple configuration
> parameter either but hard-coded. Without knowing where in the source to
> look for this, I searched all files for explicit, static 256 byte
> buffers, and I found quite a few.
>
> I'll file a bug.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn
>
> --
>
> On 12/13/2007 05:33 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> I suggest filing a squid bugzilla bug. I'm not sure what the limits
>> are but I bet they're compile-time at the moment.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Glenn Zazulia wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 on Redhat & Windows, configured in a chain
>>> of peers with custom auth & external acl helpers that manipulate the
>>> proxyauth credentials/header. This works fine when the user:passwd
>>> string is less than 256 bytes (prior to base64-encoding), but I noticed
>>> that squid truncates anything larger than that. I didn't find any
>>> stated header size limit in the RFCs (2616, etc.), and I'm wondering if
>>> this is an arbitrary, static limit imposed by squid? If at all
>>> possible, I need to increase that limit to 1 KB, and I'm wondering if
>>> this can be done without patching the source. I didn't see anything
>>> obvious in the config file or the docs.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any assistance that you could provide.
>>>
>>> Glenn Zazulia
>>>
Received on Thu Dec 13 2007 - 14:43:19 MST