[squid-users] Re: Squid, Hotmail and Outlook Express

Ytzhak Levy wrote:

> Some users are trying to access yours hotmail account via http access by
> outlook express.
>
> Squid requires authentication.
>
> OE does'nt has any field to insert login and password to access squid.
> Thus, I make two acls:
>
> # login name of the users that need to access hotmail by OE
> acl OE_USERS proxy_auth "/squid/etc/OE.users"
>
> # address accessed by outlook to fetch emails - actually the url:
> # http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp
> acl HM_SERVER dstdomain .msn.com
>
> allowing access:
>
> http_access allow OE_USERS HM_SERVER
>
> but OE still tells that squid is asking for a authenticated access.
>
> what is wrong ?

You are still requiring authentication. Remove the OE_USERS acl and have
just "http_access allow HM_SERVER" before any http_access lines that use
proxy_auth acls. This will allow access to Hotmail without authentication.

Adam
Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 12:16:35 MDT