RE: [squid-users] Parent Authentication request problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Szarka Zoltán [mailto:szarka@torley.hu]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:30 PM
> To: 'Squid'
> Subject: [squid-users] Parent Authentication request problem
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> I have a squid proxy without authentication request, there is
> a Netscape
> proxy with authenticaton request for each user
> (unfortunatelly I have no
> administrator right for that server.)
>
> What I want is forward all local http request to Netscape
> proxy over my
> Squid.
>
> I have try it with the following conf setting , but netscape
> proxy doesnt
> accept any user/password. (why?)
>
> cache_peer <netscape proxy ip> parent <port> 3130 default no_query
>
> Then I have used login= option for cache_peer with a static
> username:password. It has worked very well, but only with
> that user's right.
> It is possible to forward authentication request for each user? I have
> already try with login=PASS , login=PROXYPASS the netscape
> proxy doesnt
> accept authentications.
>
> thanks
>
> Zoltan
>

login=PASS only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme. It's likely that the Netscape parent is using Digest. Assuming this is the case, I'm not sure if there is anything you can do.

Chris
Received on Tue Sep 27 2005 - 13:38:07 MDT