RE: [squid-users] Writing Cookies in SQUID

Hi Amos,
   Thanks for the response. Can you point me in the direction of an
external ACL helper that can help me do this?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:11 PM
To: ADEBAYO, FOLUSO, ATTSI
Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Writing Cookies in SQUID

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:43:54 -0400, "ADEBAYO, FOLUSO, ATTSI"
<fa682m_at_att.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to write a cookie variable to a response from a client in
> Squid so that next time a request comes from that client I can take an
> action. Can someone please point me in the direction of where I would
> need to make the changes in Squid 2.6.
>
> thanks

Clients do not 'response' to Squid. They make requests. The cookie needs
to
be generated against the domain the client requested, and will be passed
publicly to the web server actually generating the response whenever the
client requests that articular domain, not simply in the next request.

I would suggest instead looking into an external ACL helper that can
track
client IPs and the domains they visit, then do the action based on its
own
tracking state. This is much simpler and does not involve hacking the
web
requests/response being publicly transmitted. Nor hacking the Squid code
to
abuse HTTP.

Amos
Received on Tue Jul 28 2009 - 13:45:09 MDT