Re: [squid-users] Help needed...Authentication changes

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Deepa D wrote:

> I am using squid-2.5.STABLE4 in no cache mode.It
> is configured to use pam_auth for authentication.
> The requirement that I have is as follows :-
> The first time a request comes from a particular
> IP , squid should send back a 407 Proxy Authentication
> Required message.The browser will prompt the user with
> a login page and subsequently validate the user and
> cache the login info.But for subsequent requests for a
> certain time period(that can be read from a
> configuration file based on the user group), the proxy
> should not send back a 407 Proxy Authentication
> Required message and hence the browser should not
> prompt the login page for that time period.

All except the time period is how it usually works.

HTTP does not have sessions, and if there is to be a timeout of the login
then this needs to be set in your browser.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Sep 22 2003 - 01:47:39 MDT