Re: [squid-users] Problems with Java and NTML authenication (java.io.IOException when using NTLM authenication)

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Adam Pearse wrote:

> If Squid is configured to use auth_param ntlm only (so auth_param
> basic lines are not present or commented out, unlike the above
> example), sites that use java applets such as
> http://javatester.org/version.html, will error out with a
> java.io.IOException in the java console. This seems to apply to older
> (pre 1.4 ??) versions of java. We ran into the problem using Oracle's
> JInitiator Control Panel 1.1.8.16.

Or to be more precise in an ntlm-only configuration you will be unable to
access the Internet using any component which does not support NTLM
authentication to the proxy

   - Other browsers than MSIE
   - Sun Java JRE, most versions
   - Quite many different plugins etc
   - Other tools using http outside of MSIE.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 09:58:38 MDT