Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy howto?

From: Nick Smith <nick@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 02:25:42 -0500 (EST)

<quote who="Henrik Nordstrom">
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Nick Smith wrote:
>
>> can someone point me to a good howto for setting up a
>> transparent proxy with
>> client authentication?
>
> You can't combine transparent interception and authentication.
> HTTP does
> not allow this for very good reasons.

well i dont want just anyone connecting to my proxy, so what do
i need to be able to authenticate and keep it anonymous?

>
>> i want to make an anonymous proxy so my clients can surf
>> anonymously, is
>> a transparent proxy what i want?
>
> A proxy is what you want. It does not need to be transparent.
>

what do i need then? and do i have to set it up any differently
to be anonymous? any howtos you can point out?

thanks for the quick response

nick
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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