Re: crypted proxy-auth ???

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:13:53 +0100

Heinz Ahrens wrote:

> Is there a possibility to send crypted passwords from my
> netscape-clients to my squid-proxy-cache over the LAN ???

Not at this time. Squid only supports Basic HTTP authentication.

Theoretically it is possible to extent Squid to use Digest HTTP
authentication which is a challenge-response scheme where the password
is not sent at all. This is however not yet implemented in Squid.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 17:18:34 MST

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