I have set up a debian linux server at our local high school running an Apache WWW server with the proxy module.
Caching works great but we also need proxy authentication. I am familiar with how to do this using Netscape Proxy but the functionality is not (yet) supported by Apache and is specifically excluded from the feature list for the next version (1.2)... Basically, rather than prevent student/staff access to web pages before the fact, we have set up an 'acceptable use policy' and plan to log their actual use (the users are fully made aware that this will happen). Then if someone complains we can look back at the facts. In this way, we hope to stifle the neo-luddites who would categorically deny web access to all students. This scheme requires identification of the user, as the machines (mostly macs) can be used by anybody. Netscape Proxy does this nicely but doesn't run on Linux... Anyone have a good idea? Thanks, Michael Laing P.S. This server is a big hit at the H.S. - students create web pages on their macs & drop them in their personal appleshare folders (netatalk on the server) then Apache serves them out. I have also copied CDROM's into hard disk partitions and we have yet to find an upper limit on the number of macs that can use them simultaneously AND with much better performance than if mounted locally (10-20 users seems reasonable, maybe more). -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
