Re: [squid-users] Problems with smb_auth and JavaApplets

Hi,

At 10.15 28/01/2005, Jens Strohschnitter wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I have activated the authentification via smb_auth in our
>Squid 2.5 on SuSE SLES9. It works very fine, but sometimes
>while running a special online application based on Java
>another login-window appears after loading the page.
>The user is already logged in and works on any side, but
>after connecting to the application-side, another login-
>screen (showen as java-login-screen, not the first login-
>screen of windows-explorer) appears, and the user have
>to login again. Sometimes working with the application
>another login appears. So the user is getting wild :-(
>Is it an known problem ?
>The loginscreen looks like a javawindow and needs the
>information of the samba-account. So it is not a bug
>of the application.
>
>Hope someone can help me to fix this problem, thanxx
>a lot for any reply ...

This is not a Squid bug: Internet Explore and the Sun JVM don't share user
authentication, and, as i know, Sun JVM use only basic authentication.

You can use the following workaround:

acl java_jvm browser Java/1.4
http_access allow java_jvm

But be careful: this allow any unauthenticated Java traffic !!!

Regards

Guido

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Received on Fri Jan 28 2005 - 02:44:52 MST