From the category archives:

Proxy Server

How To: Write Custom Basic Authentication Plugin for Squid in Python

April 24, 2008

Mission
To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don’t want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc.
Use Cases

When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database.
When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or some custom service on [...]

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How To: Configure Hierarchicy of Proxy Servers (Squid)

March 5, 2008

Yesterday I came across this idea of caching all the data that I browse on my hard disk so that the average load time of a website decreases. Actually the idea is I’ll cache all the static data that I browse like images, static html pages, CSS files and similar things which does not change [...]

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