Re: [squid-users] username and password in TRANSPARENT mode

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:26:34 +0800

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007, Neil A. Hillard wrote:

> I can't see how it's a shortcoming of the protocol. If the browser
> isn't aware that there is a proxy then why would it (why should it) try
> to authenticate to one? Tell it that a proxy exists and it's more than
> happy to authenticate.
>
> Interception is less than ideal.

Look at how a browser talks directly to an origin server when presenting
(HTTP Basic) authentication credentials, and what a proxy ends up doing
with those.

Adrian
Received on Mon Aug 06 2007 - 04:26:04 MDT

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