Re: [squid-users] NTLM and loadbalanced squid

Michael Pophal <michael.pophal@siemens.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> does anyone have experiences with a (round-robin) loadbalanced squid
> farm and NTLM authentication.
> As I understand this,
> 1. a client sends his request
> 2. he gets an answer from proxy 1 'authentication required'
> 3. the authentication dialog pops up and after entering the credetials
> 4. the client send his response including the authentication header to
> proxy 2
>
> What is the next step. Can proxy 2 handle this request without knowing
> the steps before? Is it necessary to have a sticky connection between
> client and proxy?

Unless you want NTLMv2 (which squid right now doesn't support) it should
work, as long as a TCP connection from a client is forwarded to the same
server until FIN or RST.

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