Re: Squid and authentication

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Paul Brown wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas how authentication from browsers can be
> > handled when using Squid ? At the moment the site I'm tryin gto access
> > pops up a netscape authentication dialog when not using any cache in
> > netscape but just times out when using a FreeBsd squid 1.2 server. The
> > ports that the web site asking for authentication are on are 81 and 82
> > if that makes any difference.
>
> Squid is supposed to be transparent when using HTTP authentication. My
> guess is that the site in question does strange.

Try turning tcp_extensions on in the FreeBSD server (look for
tcp_extensions in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/sysconfig for it to do it each
time).

/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=1

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Bruce.
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 00:28:50 MDT