Re: [squid-users] A couple new problems

From: Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:23:06 +0200

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 22:38, Brian Palmer wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Been using squid happily for about a year now, but I've run
> across a couple issues that I can't seem to sort out. I've got a
> user that needs to connect to a website that uses NT CHAP
> authentication. If the user goes through the proxy it just spits
> back an authentication error without being prompted for a password.
> Can Squid proxy CHAP? Didn't see anything in the FAQ regarding it
> one way or the other.

No, MS NTLM over HTTP cannot be proxied, not even by MS PROXY (or
ISA) when being used as a HTTP proxy. This is due to a design flaw in
the MS NTLM over HTTP protocol.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 03:57:54 MDT

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