Re: WGET not authorizing?

Then why am I required to authorize when using my (old) NS 3.5 proxy-server?

Richard.

Martin Brooks wrote:

> Richard van Denzel wrote:
> >
> > The WGET is indeed running on Linux (RH6.0), but the Squid is running on
> > AIX 4.3.2.
>
> It makes no difference. If your local networking environment permits
> outgoing direct connections to the Internet then your users will be able
> to bypass the proxy by simply not using. Ideally, you want to either
> block outgoing connections to ports 80,8080 etc or, better still, use
> port-forwarding to redirect outgoing requests to Squid.
>
> This is a firewall/networking issue and not a problem with squid.
>
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