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

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ryan Lamberton wrote:
hmm... is there an example of a "silly helper" out there I can use/modify?
In this case as all you need it to echo the username back to Squid the 
following suffices:

#!/bin/sh
while read user; do
        echo OK user=$user
done
And will the Ident acl "set" the username the same way the proxy_auth does so 
my filtering program can identify the username?
Yes.
Why should I disable client side persistent connections?
Because of the ident association of the external acl returned username in 
Squid-2.5.  ident is connection oriented, meaning all requests on this 
connection will inherit the username.

This is fixed in Squid-3.0, where this mechanism of having external acls 
returning a username is more obvious.

Regards
Henrik