Re: [squid-users] FW: Transparent proxy (WCCP) and LDAP authentication

Correction. There are a few confusing terms here.

 'transparent' means different things when used to describe HTTP proxy
actions and Active Directory authentication.

 *transparent interception* (the proxy term) and the way HTTP works
prevents regular HTTP authentication methods being done. That is an
absolute. Security feature in browser. etc. etc.

 *transparent* authentication (the AD term people seem to like. I assume
they really mean invisible to the user) is one of the non-HTTP
authentication methods that can under careful setup work.

Amos

> Yes you can. I do this perfectly, but requires using SmartFilter (which I
> find offers the better content filtering than the competition). I have a
> full step by step doc if you want it.
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johnson, S <sjohnson_at_edina.k12.mn.us>
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Mon Oct 13 15:12:50 2008
> Subject: [squid-users] FW: Transparent proxy (WCCP) and LDAP
> authentication
>
>
> I've been digging around while working on this and found a reference from
> someone 4 years ago that said that transparent proxy does not work with
> authentication. Is this true? I need to perform the following tasks:
>
> 1) Authenticate users against a windows AD
> 2) Transparent proxy (without the need to set browser settings at each
> computer). I'm looking at WCCP2 here
> 3) Log where people have gone for later review
> 4) Use a URL blacklist to block the majority of "bad" sites.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
Received on Mon Oct 13 2008 - 23:26:35 MDT