Re: [squid-users] logging on to a website/timeout

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 02:13, larry.walker@st-bedes.surrey.sch.uk wrote:
> It has been suggested that our problem is related to 'sticky
> sessions' by which we understand that the initial communication
> is being established between Squid and destination site and
> then the destination site is trying to continue with the local
> PC which being differently identified somehow prevents the link
> and it times out.
>
> (or it could be he other way round - first connection with
> local PC and then with Squid)
> Further to our ongoing problem above, I offer the following information which is a summary of a call we had with our ISP:
>
>
> "Either way the destination site is confused over who it is
> dealing with.

A strong indication that the destination site is using either per IP
session of some sort, or NTLM authentication, both of which are
fundamentally broken to use on the internet.

Rob

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