Re: [squid-users] Is Squid an option for me? <newbie>

----- Original Message -----
From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>
To: <yanek@cigital.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Is Squid an option for me? <newbie>

> I'm also interested in seeing if this is possible, at least from the
basic
> auth angle.
>
> More specifically, I would want to:
...most of this has already been answered...

> - (optionally) figure out a way to do basic auth login via an html
web-form
> instead of a default browser dialog (that is, prempt the auth
challenge
> response, even if this only can be done via client-side scripting on
capible
> browsers).

I'm not aware of any _scripting_ interface to access the http channel.
There are binary means though.

I don't see the benefit however - as you seem to be using the 2nd tier
for software authentication... Basic authentication is designed to
identify the end user. If you have scripting code running, use it to
implement token based authentication for your code.

Rob
Received on Wed Sep 19 2001 - 16:40:45 MDT