Re: [squid-users] Does Squid 2.5.PRE5 support NTLM WWW authentica tion ?

12-Apr-02 at 13:06, Henrik Nordstrom (hno@marasystems.com) wrote :
> > If the destination web server would use something different like basic
> > authentication, wouldn't it then work?
>
> Ofcourse. Basic HTTP authentication is fully HTTP compliant, and can be
> proxied by all HTTP proxies.

FWIW, Basic HTTP authentication is the way to go. It is less secure than
NT Challenge/Response found on IIS4 and 5, but since it's a closed
protocol only IE browsers can use it, and still I have had problems even
with IE. If people from outside your network (e.g. on an extranet) or
general surfers should be able to access content via authentication on the
web server, then Basic HTTP authentication should be used. To make it more
secure, run it over SSL/TLS.

Regards,

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