Re: [squid-users] Squid Login=PASS problem

It may also have something to do with NTLM authentication, and its
requirement for keepaluve both between client and proxy and between
proxy and origin server.

On 5/13/08, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Joe Mundschau - IT Security wrote:
> > I currently have a squid box Version 2.6.Stable18 in which I have an
> up-stream cache-peer directive...
> >
> >
> >
> > The main site that is giving me a problem is a Microsoft Sharepoint
> site... When I hit one of those sites that contains components requiring
> authentication, it prompts me once for each item on the page that requires
> login/password information.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I type my info in once, I can keep hitting OK, after which everything
> comes across OK. If I navigate to a different page, then back to the first,
> it prompts for each item again...
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> If you already have the exact string "login=PASS" in your 'cache_peer
> ... parent' line, then its not a squid issue. The web server sees the
> same auth credentials that squid gets given.
>
> Configure your browser to keep your authentication details longer than a
> single object load. ie save the details for the whole site.
>
> It may also be an issue with the sharepoint server not liking a single
> IP (ie squid) with many different credentials at once if you have others
> using the site through squid.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please use Squid 2.6.STABLE20 or 3.0.STABLE5
>

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