Re: Squid NTLM work

Thanks for the patch. Committed to the CVS sources. If you create
yourself a SourceForge account then I suppose you can be given write
access directly.

I for sure does not mind questions about the Squid code. Feel free to
ask anything you like.

Returning 401 sounds like an error. It must return 407 when running as a
proxy. 401 is only for web servers.

What triggers the NTLM authentication in the web browser is a 407 reply
having a "Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM" header when talking to a proxy, or a
401 reply and a "WWW-Authenticate: NTLM" header when talking to a origin
server.

Hmm.. are you sure it is the proxy who returns the 401 reply? What does
the full headers of the reply look like?

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Tony Gale wrote:
> 
> I'm just starting on this in earnest. Enclosed is a patch against the
> CVS version to get it to compile.
> 
> Andy: are you back from abroad yet?
> 
> I'm just trying to get my head around the code ATM. The squid code is
> quite large and complicated, so I hope you don't mind if I ask a few
> basic questions to start with.
> 
> 1. In the ntlm notes Henrik placed on sourceforge it says that the
> server returns a 407 code with a "Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM" header.
> Mine returns a 401 with a "WWW-Authenticate: NTLM" header. Is there a
> reason for this discrpancy that you know of?
> 
> 2. Whats the code path for the header triggering the NTLM auth code?
> (Do both of the above headers trigger it - it's not working for me
> ATM).
> 
> Thanks for any help, please bear with me while I get upto speed.
> 
> -tony
> 
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