Re: authentication problem

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Dancer wrote:
>
> > I've been working with the guys from Novell about getting
> > Border-Manager to behave with an upstream squid doing
> > authentication. The solution we came up with was to have BM
> > cache, but send an IMS request upstream if there was a
> > cache-hit (and it 'knows' [that is, it is configured to
> > know] that an upstream proxy does proxy-auth), and if it
> > gets a 407 to challenge the end-user, verify those
> > credentials with a subsequent IMS, and then return the
> > cached object as needed. A bit ugly, and a little wasteful
> > of traffic, but workable.
>
> I think I get the idea.
>
> If configured for upstream authentication then use IMS on every request
> to verify user credentials. only-if-cached should probably be added to
> avoid wasting additional bandwidth.

Good idea. I'll pass that back.

D
Received on Sun Oct 31 1999 - 01:05:53 MDT