Re: [squid-users] NTLM Authentication Problem

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:16:57 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Jim Richey wrote:

> I managed to discover the problem. Because of a bug in IE 6.0 which
> causes squid to initially display a page not found and then after a
> refresh correctly displays the page I had squid configured to not allow
> client persistent connections. For NTLM authentication to work, client
> persistent connections must be enabled in squid.conf

Indeed.

NTLM can not ever work without persistent connections enabled, as
it authenticates connections and not requests, and it takes 2 to 3
requests to authenticate a connection using NTLM.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 08:17:02 MST

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