Re: [squid-users] Cache_peer HTTP Digest authentication problem

From: Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:50:16 +0200

lör 2010-06-19 klockan 19:42 +0530 skrev Chitresh Kakwani:

> cache_peer 192.168.10.1 parent 8080 0 no-query login=username:password

login=username:password sends Basic authentication, not Digest.

You can use login=PASS to forward the credentials supplied by the users
browser.

> So the parent proxy returns an error TCP_MISS/407: Authentication
> Required. Is there a way to configure the local proxy to use HTTP
> Digest authentication when forwarding requests to the parent proxy?
> If this feature is not available in squid, then I would like to
> implement it. Can somebody give me directions on how to get started
> with squid's code ?

This would require adding processing of 407 responses in http.cc or
maybe forward.cc.

Please join the squid-dev list to discuss this matter.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jun 20 2010 - 18:50:21 MDT

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