Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy and NCSA auth

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:19:47 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, James Gray wrote:

> Read the archives, this has been answered at least 20 times in the last 3
> months.

And is also mentioned the squid.conf documentation (proxy_auth acl
documentation).

> You can NOT use ANY authentication with a transparent proxy. It's a
> restriction in the HTTP protocol[1].

Actually it is more than a restriction, it is a security requirement that
browsers does not blindly trust anyone with proxy user credentials (web
servers etc..).

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 08:19:51 MST

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