No, I am talking about the access controls built into Squid. See the acl directive and http_access.
external_acl_type is about extending the built-in access controls with new types of access controls. REgards Henrik On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Peter Smith wrote: > Would the access controls you are talking of include using the > "external_acl_type"? (http://squid.sourceforge.net/external_acl) > > I've toyed with the idea of using a script in an external acl which > would consider URLs using squidGuard and provide ERR/OK based on that, > with a combination of the "auth_param basic" and its associated ACL with > poor results. > > Thanks, > Peter > > > Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Peter Smith wrote: > > > > > > > >>I'm thinking of tearing up Squid 2.5.STABLE4 code to get this to work. > >>Probably alter the basic authentication code: if the user is > >>authenticated to the "NOBLOCK" group, then do not use the redirector > >>(squidGuard.); if the user is not authenticated, then route traffic to > >>the redirector; if the redirector indeed redirects it then process the > >>authentication; if the user authenticates correctly then go back to the > >>top and let them through; if the user fails authentication send them to > >>the redirected page. > >> > >> > > > >Use Squid access controls instead of SquidGuard and you get this > >capability to selectively request authenticatoin for free. > > > >Regards > >Henrik > > > > > > >
