Hi, I am reposting this because I am still stuck and did not find a workaround so far. The basic question is how does squid handle non-english characters in usernames it gets using ntlm when it passes them on to external helpers and redirectors. From previous posts on this list I already know that it converts them to url-encoded characters when it writes acces.log. But to even puzzle me more in the example posted below the character � is written as %99 in access.log, the charts I found so far on the net assume that � should be converted to %f6. Am I using a wrong chart here? But since logfiles are treated differently as external helpers and redirectors how are these characters passed on to those instances and is there a difference between the two? Sorry about posting this again, but I could really use some help here. Thanks Jan
This is what I posted on 09/25: ***** Hi, I am running squid-2.5STABLE4 with the patch regarding spaces in login names in an actice directory environment. Squid gets usernames using NTLM and checks this using external helper ip_user_check. This works fine, unfortunatly there are some usernames with umlauts in them and those checks fail. When looking in access.log and cache.log I see different username entries. As an example we used a user with the name "n�": access.log: 1064478528.646 14 192.168.1.11 TCP_DENIED/403 1716 GET http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll? domain\n%99 NONE/- text/html cache.log: 2003/09/25 10:19:33| aclMatchExternal: groupcheck user not authenticated (-1) 2003/09/25 10:19:33| aclMatchExternal: groupcheck("192.168.1.11 domain\\n~Y") = lookup needed 2003/09/25 10:19:33| externalAclLookup: lookup in 'groupcheck' for '192.168.1.11 domain\\n~Y' 2003/09/25 10:19:33| external_acl_cache_add: Adding '192.168.1.11 domain\\n~Y' = -1 2003/09/25 10:19:33| externalAclHandleReply: reply="ERR" 2003/09/25 10:19:33| external_acl_cache_add: Adding '192.168.1.11 domain\\n~Y' = 0 2003/09/25 10:19:33| aclMatchExternal: groupcheck = 0 The file ip_user_check uses contains a line 192.168.1.11 domain\\n� and it is called with this line external_acl_type groupcheck %SRC %LOGIN /usr/sbin/ip_user_check -f /etc/squid/proxyuser.conf So can squid handle usernames with umlauts at all and if so, how do those names get encoded (or is this done by the browser?). Is there a difference between the encoding regarding helpers and redirectors? I would really appreciate any help or suggestion. Jan
