[squid-users] Re: msn messenger around proxy auth

Rolf wrote:

> anyone have an ACL that enables connection from msn messenger clients
> where proxy auth is in use?
>
> The messenger client does not seem to be proxy auth aware, so it will
> only work if the client has previously entered their credentials
> through having requested some other site via a conventional browser
> http request first. This is the workaround we currently have.
>
> I'd be happy to have an ACL placed before the auth lines to allow
> messenger login, but can't quite get the ones I've tried so far to
> work.

Searching the archives for "block MSN messenger" should give you some ways
to match MSN messenger traffic. You can then build an ACL based on that to
allow access without authentication.

Adam
Received on Fri Dec 17 2004 - 10:50:13 MST