Re: reverse authentication for squid

Damien Croarken wrote:

> is it possible to get squid to log into a site... for example my site
> aaa.com needs a username / password to allow access but I want my proxy to
> log into the site as username alpha. is squid capable of doing this... also
> is it possible to get it to do this across multiple sites?

Yes, by the help of a redirector.

Squid understands URL's on the format

http://username:password@host/path/to/file

so you can use a redirector to selectively add the login information to
the URL's as they pass thru Squid.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker