Re: Authentication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:58:59 +0200

Have you tried www.fwtk.org, the main site for FWTK?

/Henrik

Awie wrote:
>
> Hi Henrik,
>
> Your suggestion is exactly same with John Saunders that I should try to use
> FWTK. I tried to download the utility "plug proxy" or plug-gw. However, I
> found there are so many files.
>
> Which file should I get? Does the patch purpose for Squid or Linux? Squid
> and Linux is a "new game" for me, FWTK will be my "new toys" too. I wish my
> Squid server would not "game over"
>
> Sorry for my stupid question. I hope much that I will be able to solve the
> problem very soon.
>
> Thx
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Awie
> awie@eksadata.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
> To: "Awie" <awie@eksadata.com>
> Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Authentication
>
> > 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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