Re: [squid-users] Squid reverse proxy with upstream webserver authentication

Paul Wickham wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are running squid 2.6-21 (as bundled with Centos 5.3) and are
> trying to configure a reverse proxy for an intranet webserver that
> requires authentication. This is so that users can conect to the squid
> server and see the authenticated content without providing a username
> and password.
>
> I was hoping that by configuring cache_peer with the
> LOGIN=Username:Password option that squid would login to the webserver
> and be able to obtain the content. However, when I try this I still
> get prompted for my credentials which if I supply them works fine.
>
> Is it possible to provide access to the authenticated content via this
> method or would we have to follow another approach?

Sounds like a) you may need to use lower case for 'login=', or b) your
squid is not sending the requests through that configured peer. What
does your http_access and cache_peer* config look like?

Amos

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