RE: [squid-users] problem accessing a certain website using 2.5.STABLEx

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Tay Teck Wee wrote:

>> 2.4 does not know about the HTTP breakage introduced by Microsoft in
>> their NTLM & Negotiate authentication schemes, and will happily forward
>> the messages as seen resulting in total caos after a while (including
>> major security issues on the server).
>
> What kind of chaos can we expect?

Users getting other users data, random authentication popups,
communication failures etc.

>> Also newer versions of MSIE and IIS also knows this and will
>> automatically disable the use of NTLM and Negotiate when a proxy is
>> detected.
>
> How does one auth then?

By using one of the standard HTTP authentication mechanisms (Basic or
Digest).

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Aug 22 2005 - 12:27:58 MDT