Re: [SQU] Credentials forwarding?

Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:

> I fear not. Think what happens with NTLM: in this case the only
> kind of forwarding you can do is pass-through.
> This works, of course, but still doesn't work for my needs. An
> X-Squid-Authenticated-User: username
> and
> X-Squid-Originating-Client: ip_address

A better choinse is perhaps to translate it to basic with a shared
secret password... this has the benefit that it is a known mechanism
which is well understood by servers.

As I said the whole concept of how to configure accelerators should be
reworked, preferably using the cache_peer concept which would add space
for options like this amongs other things..

/Henrik
Received on Mon Dec 18 2000 - 14:44:01 MST