Yes, I think so, and I suspect that it's not a simple configuration parameter either but hard-coded. Without knowing where in the source to look for this, I searched all files for explicit, static 256 byte buffers, and I found quite a few.
I'll file a bug. Thanks. Glenn -- On 12/13/2007 05:33 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I suggest filing a squid bugzilla bug. I'm not sure what the limits > are but I bet they're compile-time at the moment. > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Glenn Zazulia wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm using Squid 2.6.STABLE17 on Redhat & Windows, configured in a chain >> of peers with custom auth & external acl helpers that manipulate the >> proxyauth credentials/header. This works fine when the user:passwd >> string is less than 256 bytes (prior to base64-encoding), but I noticed >> that squid truncates anything larger than that. I didn't find any >> stated header size limit in the RFCs (2616, etc.), and I'm wondering if >> this is an arbitrary, static limit imposed by squid? If at all >> possible, I need to increase that limit to 1 KB, and I'm wondering if >> this can be done without patching the source. I didn't see anything >> obvious in the config file or the docs. >> >> Thanks for any assistance that you could provide. >> >> Glenn Zazulia
