[squid-dev] Drop cache_object protocol support

[Eduard Bagdasaryan]

On 25.01.2023 15:29, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 25/01/2023 5:34 pm, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> On 1/24/23 20:57, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>
>>> Blocker #1:  The cachemgr_passwd directly still needs to be cleanly 
>>> removed, eg replaced by a manager_access ACL based mechanism.
>>
>> I do not see a relationship: I have not tested it, but the existing 
>> CacheManager::ParseHeaders() code already extracts authentication 
>> information from cache manager requests that use "http" scheme 
>> AFAICT. Can you detail why the cachemgr_passwd directive/code cannot 
>> continue to work essentially as it works today after cache_object 
>> scheme support is removed from Squid?
>
> We should check that then. It may not be as impactful as I am recalling. 


My test showed that CacheManager::ParseHeaders() extracts password from 
the Authorization header incorrectly: params.password gets an extra '\n' 
symbol and CacheManager::CheckPassword() fails. This, however, seems 
easy to fix.


Eduard.
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