RE: [squid-users] Windows Permissions through Squid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Wylie [mailto:squid@benwylie.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Windows Permissions through Squid
>
>
> On our webserver I have some pages which I want you to have to log on, to
be
> able to access them. This is done by setting the permissions on the files
so
> that only a particular user (not iusr_server which is the anonymous web
> user). When not using the proxy it pops up a box and prompts you for a
> username and password. However when going via the proxy this doesn't
happen.
> I have seen lots of information about authentication settings - are they
> anything to do with this? Is it possible to authenticate yourself with
> windows, via a proxy, in this way?
>
> Thanks
> Ben

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.14

In short, Microsoft broke web standards (again) with NTLM authentication of
web pages. One workaround that I have read about is using SSL. By doing
so, the authentication should work just fine (and it seems to me that you
would want authentication to go over an encrypted channel regardless).

Chris
Received on Wed Apr 20 2005 - 11:53:51 MDT