On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Glynn Robinson wrote:
I'm currently setting up a new Squid proxy server to replace an existing one. The current proxy utilises an ACL which connects to a MySQL database and extracts a number of allowed URLs from a table. The problem is, I'm having trouble replicating this behaviour in the new proxy. The current squid.conf file has a number of references to MySQL - including information regarding the name of the database, the user and password etc but when I include these statements in the new squid.conf file I receive a number of errors. Obviously, I need to add MySQL support but I am unsure as to how to do this. I've seen posts regarding a package called mysql_auth but I'm assuming it won't allow me to pull URLs from a database to add into an ACL.
Your old Squid is patched with the unofficial mysql_acl patch which was available for Squid-2.4 and Squid-2.2.
If you know a little programming then replicating pretty much the same functionality using the external_acl interface of Squid-2.5 and later is not too hard, but to my knowledge noone has done this yet.
Regards Henrik
