RE: [squid-users] Real Player problem through Squid Proxy

# # I am having problem in accessing few video clips through real
# # player 8.0. I
# # have configured Squid proxy and I am getting network error in
# # Real player if
# # I attempt to connect to the sites. Even I have tried giving
# # the http proxy
# # in the Real player preference but that didn't help me.
# #
#

There might actually be a way: You might create an ACL which allows certain
agents (like Real Player) to pass without authentication. I don't know what
the agent is for Real Player (like "Mozilla..." for IE, "NSPlayer..." for
Windows Media Player), but you can extract that info from your access.log
(when logging in squid-format).

This, however could be dangerous, as it's not very hard to change the
agent-type for other apps as well, so users could circumvent your
authentication.

Peter

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Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 23:27:09 MST