Re: [squid-users] Passing web service username and password in Squid for Windows...

I should detail that the back end web service is an AXIS application
(I don't know too much about it). Traffic that doesn't require a web
service call using username and password works. It's only the web
service communication using username and password where it fails.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Gary Tai <gary.c.tai_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, sorry I didn't state, but it is a Reverse Proxy.
>
> So, the "login=PASS" parameter will forward the encoded username and
> password to the backend application?
>
> I'll give it a try.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
> <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>> On ons, 2008-06-18 at 17:08 -0400, Gary Tai wrote:
>>
>>> >From the application documentation:
>>> Web services requires a client to provide credentials as BASIC HTTP
>>> user authentication. BASIC authentication encrypts the user ID and
>>> password with Base64 encoding and passes it as an HTTP request header
>>> parameter.
>>
>> Is this a reverse proxy? If so see the last question here:
>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy#head-c59962b21bb8e2a437beb149bcce3190ee1c03fd
>>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>>
>
Received on Thu Jun 19 2008 - 00:44:23 MDT