Re: [squid-users] auth question

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:16, John Holstein wrote:
> At 02:56 PM 12/12/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> ><file://C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\attach\Re [squid-users] auth
> >question3.ems <0880.0002>>148facb.jpg<file://C:\Program
> >Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\attach\Re [squid-users] auth question3.ems
> ><0880.0002>> Re [squid-users] auth question3.ems
>
>
> ok. now I get this:
>
> Sorry, you are not currently allowed to request:
> http://www.google.com/
> from this cache until you have authenticated yourself.
>
>
> so am I to assume that it doesn't password prompt me and I need to do
> something such as:
>
> username@password:proxy.ip.address:1080?

No, your client software should prompt you for a password - that screen
is sent when a password prompt is sent.

BTW: the port 1080 looks suspicious, that's usually for SOCKS proxies,
which squid is not.

Cheers,
Rob