Re: [squid-users] auth_param username rewrite

Hi David and all,

I found this thread in the old archive of squid-users.
Any updates on the status of your patch you mentioned before?

Thanks,
Steve.

David Brown wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:17:58 +0100 (CET), Henrik Nordstrom
><hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Scott wrote:
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>>>Sorry Henrik, should have elaborated a little... I have over 1000 customer
>>>sites.. that would be a little ugly to set up and very ugly to maintain.
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>>Not very, but a little yes.
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>>>>It must be another proxy (such as Squid) and it must support forwarding of
>>>>the user credentials to another proxy but with a modified username (which
>>>>Squid does btw.. see the login= cache_peer option).
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>>>I'll take a look at this me thinks
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>>I am not sure you will find any which does what you want.
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>>Probably easier to modify Squid to your desires. If you use Basic
>>authentication then all you should need to modify is the decoding of the
>>authentication header to always add the client ip to the username.
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>>see src/auth/basic/auth_basic.c authenticateBasicDecodeAuth()
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>Henrik / All,
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>My company has actually subcontracted out this partcular task and we
>implemented the solution yesterday. (We needed to do username
>rewriting based on client source IP). The code writers have said that
>they are happy to release the patch to the community however there's a
>raft of red tape, intellectual property and management approval to be
>done before we can. Hopefully there won't be any objections and we can
>release the patch for possible inclusion in squid.
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>Will keep the list posted.
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>Regards
>David Brown
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>>Regards
>>Henrik
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