Re: Transparent proxy authentication.

Amarendra GODBOLE wrote:

> Is it possible to have apache-like authentication in Squid Transparent
> proxy ?

No, only when running as a proxy or as a HTTP server accelerator. A
transparent proxy is neither.

To provide authentication when in "transparent" mode Squid must act on
behalf of the web server. Doing so in a proxy is not very practical
since
a) It makes it impossible to use authentication to log on to the web
server
b) The user has to log on again for each and every web site he visits
since the web-server authentication is performed on a per-server.domain
basis.

The proxy authentication is similar but different. Performed per
proxy.domain basis. When the browser is not configured to use a proxy
there is no authentication domain for proxy authentication.

Only one of each can be used on one single request.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
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