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Squid and members

15 Nov

Task

Use Squid to manage a cache for a website where there are member users (logged in to site) and public users. Squid must cache both member views of a page and public views.

Squid needs to check the authentication of the user and decided whether it should redirect them to a cache for members or for public users. There are only two discrete sets of users and any content that is specific to users if handled via AJAX.

  • Squid will be operating as a transparent proxy.
  • Usernames/Passwords are stored within a MSSQL database.
  • Squid is hosted on a unix box along with Apache

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