Re: Authentication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:56:59 +0200

Awie wrote:

> John Saunders told me that most of WEB (the require authentication) need
> same IP. I must forward the SSL packet to Squid as well as HTTP. His
> suggestion is very logical. However, when I tried to do it by adding the
> command into my Cisco IOS. My browser goes "freeze" until it reach the
> timeout and displaying error message.

This is true for quite many services where authentication is performed
using cookies.

What most people recommend it to use masquerading/source NAT to have the
client address rewritten to that of the proxy.

Theoretically it should also be possible to use a TCP proxy capable of
running as a transparent proxy. I think there is patches to plug-gw from
TIS FWTK for this...

> Again.....if I run non-transparent mode (I put same proxy address and port
> in my browser for all protocols; HTTP, FTP, SSL, etc), it runs very well. I
> assume that in my non-transparent proxy, all requests (FTP, HTTP, SSL) is
> forwarded to Squid. Am I right?

Your browser does what you tell it... so yes.

> I posted this problem to Squid's user mailing list and send mail to several
> people that seems expert (including you). Unfortunately, so far I still get
> no solution. Because I cannot "isolate" the source of problem, yet.

You quite likely have isolated the source already.

/Henrik

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