Re: [squid-users] Squid Auth Timeout

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:30:12 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Jonathan Schneider wrote:

> I have squid setup with ntlm-auth to a Windows 2003 server, is there a way
> to make Squid remember a users login for a set period of time. I have a
> user who needs to download some files using Sun Java and he is getting
> prompted for his name and password every time he tries to download a file.
> The JRE does not seem to have a setting to use a proxy auth password... any
> help is appreciated.

The problem is that the JRE used does not interoperate well with his
browser, causing authentication to be maintained separately by the browser
and the JRE. Each time the JRE is restarted it forgets it's authentication
information and the user is prompted again..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Nov 04 2004 - 14:30:14 MST

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