[squid-users] Introducing delay to HTTP 407 responses

[Amos Jeffries]

On 14/09/2016 12:18 p.m., squid-users at filter.luko.org wrote:
> Hi Squid users,
> 
> Seeking advice on how to slow down 407 responses to broken Apple & MS
> clients, which seem to retry at very short intervals and quickly fill the
> access.log with garbage.  The problem is very similar to this:
> 
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/201404/0326.html
> 

The outcome of that was a 'ext_delayer_acl helper in Squid-3.5

<http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/manuals/ext_delayer_acl.html>

It works slightly differently to what was being discussed in the thread.
see the man page for details on how to configure it.

Amos