Thanks for your answer Robert. Of course I had already read all the clear explanations given in the squid.conf file. It explains that when the garbage interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their TTL are removed from memory.
This is why I thought that if I set both authenticate_cache_garbage_intervall and authenticate_ttl to zero, then no authentication should be kept in memory and I should be prompted for authentication again for each new request. But it doesn't. Maybe now you understand better where my resonning is wrong... could you explain this to me ? Another thing is that I was looking for the cache ttl in general (not only the username cache which default ttl value is mentionned in authenticate_cache_garbage_interval. Thanks in advance Marie On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 20:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been struggling for days now to find out the meaning and default of the > following tag in squid2.5 : > > authenticate_cache_garbage_intervall It determines how often the user cache inside squid is garbage collected. The comments in squid.conf.default are fairly clear IMO. Have you read them? (Include the bit that says "Only change if you have good reason to.")? > Then I think I did understand the meaning of the following one but > I need to know the default values of them : > > credentialsttl (for basic authentication) Explained in squid.conf.default. > authenticate_ttl Ditto. > authenticate_ip_ttl Ditto. > How often is the cache cleared?(I have been searching everywhere but I couldn't > find any default values) At the garbage collection interval. The default is listed in squid.conf.default. > The reason why I am asking this is that even when changing these values to 0, I > am not prompted more often for authentication. They have no impact on how often you are prompted for authentication. None. Zip. Nada. > Actually, without setting these parameters, I am prompted for a password each > time I open a new IE window (but not for each new request in the same window). > My goal is to avoid being prompted again for authentication each time I open a > new IE window. That is up to the browser, not squid. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Institut Eurecom Webmail : http://webmail.eurecom.fr
