Re: Could you help me?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:00:31 +0100

Kittipong Suksomdet wrote:

> 1. Which function in squid that send dialog box to browser for
> type user and password into dialog box?

None. That dialog box is generated by the browser.

Squid thells the browser that the user must authenticate himself. It
does not care how the user enters this authentication.

> 2. Normal user and password that send from browser to squid non
> encryption but if want encryption which function do? ,and what
> encryption method?

Squid currently supports only Basic HTTP authentication.

There is works on supporting Digest HTTP authentication and MS NTLM
authentication.

For definitions of Basic and Digest HTTP authentication, see RFC2617.

> 3. The last if want to squid run in mode ssl , data that send
> from browser to squid in mode ssl , how do it begin?, which function?

Squid will tunnel ssl requests fine.

It cannot however act as an gateway between http<->ssl.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 00:15:12 MST

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