Re: [squid-users] NTLM and authentication window popup problem

Duygu Dogmus wrote:

> But other than that I have a strange problem. Some of our users make
> online changes on the web page www.xyz.com using www.xyz.com/bbb/aaa.asp
> . What aaa.asp does is making NTLM authentication (which using proxy is
> unsuccessfull) and open www.xyz.com in a new window.
> But besides, on other users' browsers that make request for only
> www.xyz.com (and have no idea about www.xyz.com/bbb/aaa.asp), the NTLM
> authentication window popup. And they ask me why is that coming.
> Unfortunately I have no idea.

Yes, this is because NTLM over HTTP is polluting the connection between the
proxy in a way that is incompatible with HTTP.

As a bandaid if this really bugs you you can disable server side persistent
connections. This will however have a noticeable impact on performance
causing pages to load slower.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 12:06:37 MDT