Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy to upstream authenticating proxy

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:50:19 +1200

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> fre 2009-07-24 klockan 17:29 +0200 skrev Vosloo, Jaco:
>> I need to configure a transparent proxy to an upstream authenticating
>> proxy and I believe that Squid should be able to do this. I've been
>> searching the net for months now and would really appreciate any advice
>> or pointers.
>
> interception and authentication is mutually exclusive.
>
>> 2. The FAQ says authentication can not be run on a transparent proxy,
>> this is acceptable because I do not want to authenticate on the
>> transparent proxy, I want the transparent proxy to let the user
>> authenticate to the upstream proxy.
>
> Does not matter. What matters is that the browser isn't configured for
> using a proxy so it does not accept that the requested web server (as
> far as the browser knows, it's talking to the IP of the requested web
> server) suddenly requests proxy authentication.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

Henrik,
  He seems to be asking for a way to let Squid ignore the Proxy-Auth
headers and simply not strip any that go through if the BC does ask for
it. Semantic transparency et al.

Amos

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