Re: [squid-users] Passthrough authentication

From: Tim Bates <tin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:22:55 +1000

Thanks... I thought it was something simple like that. Works perfectly.

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> ons 2006-06-21 klockan 15:53 +1000 skrev Tim Bates:
>
>> We are about to be moved to using a parent proxy that authenticates
>> users. Is it possible to pass the required user names/passwords through
>> squid?
>>
>
> Yes, assuming we are talking about basic authentication. But due to
> security implications when peering with proxies maybe not under your
> control you must explicitly allow it per peer. See the cache_peer
> directive.
>
> The host & port will be that of your proxy as that is what the client is
> talking to, but the realm should be what is presented by the upstream
> proxy.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

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