Re: [squid-users] Problem with http authentication and basic auth

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:13:36 +0200

On Thursday 17 July 2003 09.42, Konrad Neuwirth wrote:
> I am currently facing a problem that I can't resolve by myself. We
> are running squid 2.5.1 with basic authentication. One of our
> users now needs to access an https site that requires its users to
> authenticate themselves via http authentication; alas, this
> combination doesn't seem to work.

Is this a reverse proxy, or a normal proxy?

For normal proxies there should be no problem. The authentication to
the proxy is separate from authentication to web servers.

For reverse proxies the situation is different. There the proxy is the
web server, using http to fetch the files.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Thu Jul 17 2003 - 02:14:34 MDT

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