Re[2]: [squid-users] usermane and password for auth module

From: Priamikov Alexei <apriam@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:26:37 +0400

Hello laurence,
browser just packs all HTTP headers. it's not encrypted. Sniffer can
unpac HTTP headers easily.

Friday, August 03, 2001, 1:57:14 PM, you wrote:

lgn> I'm not sure which browser you're using, but i know for sure that IE5
lgn> encrypts the password using base64 encoding, i _think_ netscape uses this
lgn> as well....

lgn> Laurence J Praties
lgn> Systems Administrator
lgn> Gazelle Informatics Ltd
lgn> tel: 0871 871 0222
lgn> fax:0871 871 0223
lgn> laurence.praties@gazelle.net

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Best regards,
Priamikov
mailto:apriam@info.novsu.ac.ru
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 04:25:57 MDT

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