Re: [squid-users] secure basic authentication

From: Guido Serassio <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:53:38 +0100

Hi Henrik,

At 14.52 11/02/2006, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
Negotiate (GSSAPI / Kerberos):

> + Microsoft "standard" and future direction
> + Single-sign-on in Windows environments
> + Not plauged by the huge overhead of NTLM authentication
>
> - Not supported in Squid-2.5 (patch available)
> - Not supported in Samba-3.x (Samba-4 development snapshots
> reportedly works..)
> - Not well supported by other browsers than MSIE.

A little correction:

Currently the only released browser supporting Negotiate for proxy
authentication is FireFox 1.5, but just today I have verified that
the new Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 is working fine with Squid
(2.5.STABLE12-NEGOTIATE-NT branch) using Negotiate.

> - Not even MSIE supports it to proxies (only web servers/accelerators)
> - Not following HTTP standard (same design fault as NTLM)

Regards

Guido

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