Re: [squid-users] auth question

From: John Holstein <john@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:25:23 -0500

> ok. now I get this:
>=20
> Sorry, you are not currently allowed to request:
> http://www.google.com/
> from this cache until you have authenticated yourself.
>=20
>=20
> so am I to assume that it doesn't password prompt me and I need to do=20
> something such as:
>=20
> username@password:proxy.ip.address:1080?

> No, your client software should prompt you for a password - that screen
> is sent when a password prompt is sent.

It doesn't. What next? Anywhere I can look at a working example of a
squid.conf file with authentication? Just a basic example. The default conf
file is more complex than learning apache, which seems to be a bit of a pain.

> BTW: the port 1080 looks suspicious, that's usually for SOCKS proxies,
> which squid is not.

1080 was an example. As I understand it, it will run on any port, correct?
doesn't matter if it's 8080, 1080 or 3080.

/john
Received on Wed Dec 11 2002 - 23:25:34 MST

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