Re: [squid-users] Certain header not authenticating

> Hey,
>
> I am running squid/squidGuard with NTLM authentication. Everything works
> perfectly, except there is a site that some employees use for interactive
> training. It seems when these employees go to this site they are continually
> prompted for username/password with wpad.domainname.com as the realm.
>
> After investigating, the useragent log is showing this:
> 192.168.12.102 - - [15/Feb/2006:15:30:49 -0500] "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1" 200
> 251 "-" "NSPlayer/9.00.00.2980"
>
> It seems that the NSPlayer header is somehow not retrieving the wpad file
> correctly? If the users click cancel nothing happens - they can continue,
> but it pops up when they click to go to the next page. This is a major
> annoyance for some users, and has become a headache for me. I haven't
> explicitly set anything in squid.conf to only allow certain headers, im not
> even sure if you can. I have searched hell and high-water, but to no avail.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>

  - WPAD is normally used for automatic proxy detection in IE.
  - I don't understand why the remote webserver , would offer a WPAD.dat files
for 'internet users', that doesn't make sense.
  - The remote webserver may be broken.

M.
Received on Mon Feb 20 2006 - 04:27:17 MST