RE: [squid-users] Squid url login not working

 
>
> Hi
>
> We have just installed squid 2.5 on redhat 9 using the
> default ncsa_auth
>
> Squid seems to be working fine. When a client requests an
> internet page,
> the browser pops up the basic authentication window and on successful
> authentication, squid serves the request.
> But Im not able to automatically authenticate to squid using the 'url
> login' format. ie if I request a webpage using -
> http://username:password@somesite.com/some_page , the browser
> still throws
> up the basic authentication window (meaning squid was not able to
> authenticate me).
>
> What could be the problem. I have tried to encode the
> username pasword in
> the url using base64 but no luck. Btw I have tried using IE6,
> Opera7 and
> Netscape4.7 with all failing in simillar manner.
>
 
  These are 2 different things. Your expample relates to auth. data
 needed for some remote sites.

 This has nothing to do with locat authentication >before using< squid.

 M.
Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 05:24:21 MST