Re: [squid-users] NTLM Authentication Prompts every new IE Instance

This is almost certainly a browser issue.

The browser authenticates to Squid for each HTTP request (or TCP
connection in case of NTLM authentication scheme). It does not matter if
it is a existing or new browser window.

How the browser caches your credentials to avoid having to ask you all
the time is entirely up to the browser.

REgards
Henrik

Damian McGuckin wrote:
>
> After getting this to work in a test environment, it behaved as expected
> and once authenticated, it did not want new authentication until it had
> expired.
>
> By the way, this is 2-tier architecture both running 2.5-Stable1. I
> was using an XP client to test with IE 6.0.
>
> OK, so I built it EXACTLY the same on another pair of machine. Really,
> truly, it is the SAME. But is the behaviour the same, NO WAY!
>
> Now every NEW instance of IE wants to be authenticated! Every damn time.
>
> Obviously I have not done it EXACTLY the same. But I can't pick the
> difference. I have diff'ed files, etc.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> The only difference I can see is that this is running IE5.5 under W2K but
> I can't see that this should affect the authentication requests from the
> squid end.
>
> Thanks - Damian
>
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Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 10:06:16 MST