Time for action – exploring Basic authentication
HTTP Basic authentication supports the following auth_param options:
auth_param basic program COMMAND auth_param basic utf8 on|off auth_param basic children NUMBER [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N] auth_param basic realm STRING auth_param basic credentialsttl TIME_TO_LIVE auth_param basic casesensitive on|off
Now let's discuss what each parameter specifies and what possible values can be passed with it.
Note
Please note that the options startup, idle, and concurrency are available only in Squid version 3.2 or later.
The program parameter specifies the absolute path to the authentication helper we are trying to configure. We should note that, we can also specify additional arguments to the program ...
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