Re: [squid-users] Host name stripped after authentication for https site

3'rd option: If the "https" is an approved site for your business,
school, or whatever organization, configure Squid to not require
authentication for the site.

Tim

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Christoph Haas wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Martyn Bright wrote:
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>>Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I've trawled the archives and can't find a
>>solution that fits.
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>It is... but it's not in the FAQ. :)
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>>I have been using ncsa_auth and it works fine if I go to a site that uses
>>http://
>>
>>Unfortunately, if I try to go to any https site, the challenge response
>>seems to work ok, but I get a 400 Invalid URL message because something
>>seems to have stripped the host name from the URL. If I refresh the screen
>>or click on the "URL:" link, the page is then correctly displayed.
>>
>>I am using IE6 on XPP SP1 and have tried turning the assorted HTTP 1.1 flags
>>on and off to no avail.
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>That's a very annoying IE bug. If the first page you request is a HTTPS
>page *and* your proxy asks for authentication then the IE will strip off
>the protocol part from the URL.
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>IMHO there is no bug fix out there yet. So you either work around it by
>first calling a http:// page and after authenticating switch to the https://
>page. Or you use another browser.
>
> Christoph
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Received on Fri Sep 17 2004 - 13:36:32 MDT