Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header question

Thank you for your help. The perl script does work. I had:

> external_acl_type propel_header_auth %{x-pun} /etc
> /squid/ident.pl x-pun

and the x-pun at the end of the external_acl_type was causing the problem.
I wasn't sure why it was there but it caused the script to fail and took
squid down with it. I also added quotes around the username (OK
user="username") just in case (I was not sure the @ character was allowed).
So far all things are working great!

Thanks again for all your help!

Ryan Lamberton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Ryan Lamberton" <ryan@familink.com>
Cc: "Squid Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] external_acl_type with http request header
question

> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ryan Lamberton wrote:
>
>> As you can see I took another auth script and modified it. Even thought
>> I get the same result as the sh script I tried to use this and it caused
>> problems. Some of the base64 strings have the @familink.net in them as
>> part of the username. Can Squid use that as a username?
>
> Yes. Up to 64 characters is allowed.
>
> What problems did you see in more detail?
>
> Be warned of spaces,quotes and newlines. These requires special attention.
> The specification of the format you need to return to Squid is detailed in
> the description of the external_acl_type directive.
>
>> Just so you know, my only programming was in fortran!
>
> Programming in procedural languages is mostly the same, just different
> syntax, so this is a benefit for you.
>
> The perl language is very well documented, perhaps too well...
>
> "man perlsyn" for detailed syntax description
>
> "man perlop" for description of the available operators
> (compare/add/substract etc)
>
> "man perltoc" for a table of contents of all the manuals included in
> the perl distribution if you need to look for something else.
>
> there is also plenty of information on the web, and copy-pasting from
> other scripts doing similar things is also very helpful.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 08:14:43 MDT