Re: [squid-users] login screen

Not without some work (i.e. programming). Every object request has to
be authenticated--the browser simply caches the auth info, so you don't
get a popup every time. A web page auth wouldn't be cached by the
browser...so you'd need a clever redirector/cgi combo that could cache
that information for you.

If you really want to go that route and have some programming knowlege,
I'll go into more depth about how to implement it, but it isn't a casual
implementation.

Someone here may have already implemented such a thing--but they
probably would have mentioned it by now. The question has come up many,
many times in the past, and the answer is always the same: "get out
your favorite editor and get to work, we'll help when we can". No one
has taken us up on the offer that I know of. ;-)

Ryan Hairyes wrote:
> Thanks. I kinda already knew that. Doesn't send a 407 to the browser
> to make it bring up the login screen? Anyhow, is it possible to pass
> the login information to squid through a webpage? Like setup the username
> and password in a header and have it sent to squid?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Quoting Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>:
>
>
>>Squid does not generate a login screen. Your browser does that, and the
>>proxy has no control over its appearence.
>>
>>Ryan Hairyes wrote:
>>
>>>Hello All,
>>>
>>>I was wondering if it is possible to write my own login screen(via perl
>>>html. etc) and have it pass to squid instead of using the little default
>>>dialog box that is currently used for login.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
>>Web caching appliances and support.
>>http://www.swelltech.com
>>
>
>
>

-- 
Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com