Re: [squid-users] Passing web service username and password in Squid for Windows...

Yes, sorry I didn't state, but it is a Reverse Proxy.

So, the "login=PASS" parameter will forward the encoded username and
password to the backend application?

I'll give it a try.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On ons, 2008-06-18 at 17:08 -0400, Gary Tai wrote:
>
>> >From the application documentation:
>> Web services requires a client to provide credentials as BASIC HTTP
>> user authentication. BASIC authentication encrypts the user ID and
>> password with Base64 encoding and passes it as an HTTP request header
>> parameter.
>
> Is this a reverse proxy? If so see the last question here:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy#head-c59962b21bb8e2a437beb149bcce3190ee1c03fd
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Thu Jun 19 2008 - 00:20:08 MDT