Because a certain very big company did not read the HTTP specifications
when implementing their "integrated login" schemes (NTLM and then
Negotiate), and as a result their design is in violation to fundamental
aspects of the HTTP specification and cannot be proxied by standard HTTP
proxies who try to follow the specifications (not even their own proxy).
Regards
Henrik
"Wong, Sherman" wrote:
> I supposed authentication e.g. basic, is setup for authenticate users to use
> the cache. When the Web server needs authentication, it has nothing to do
> with the squid. Since the squid does not cache passwords. So it just forward
> the request. In that sense, why would the authentication method e.g. digest
> or ntlm possibly affecting the authentication process to the destination
> web server??
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 04:01:29 MST
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