RE: [squid-users] Squid + Firewall + non std ports

I am a little confused by the term "transparent proxying", I saw in the faq
that this does not work but I am unsure what they mean by the term.
Transparent proxying to me means that no authentication is required. If this
is the case then perhaps I am breaking the rules here by putting in an acl
for the chw.edu.au site. Currently if an internal user goes to chw.edu.au
they do not need to authenticate, if they go anywhere else on the net then
they do. It seems to be working (but the FAQ said that "it appears to
work"). Have I got a mixture going here and it should not be working as per
the faq or is it referring to you cant authenticate one network but make
another network transparent.

Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 15:45
To: Barry Darnton; Colin Campbell
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid + Firewall + non std ports

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Darnton [mailto:BarryD@chw.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:47 PM
To: 'Colin Campbell'; Barry Darnton
Cc: 'squid-users@squid-cache.org'
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid + Firewall + non std ports
 
 
Sorry about the accidental early send before.

Barry,i fyou are using "transparent" caching, you CANNOT use proxy
authentication at the same time.
 
If you have carefully divided your network, such that those users
getting prompted for passwords are not using transparent proxying, then
that *should* be ok.
 
The reason that requests with authentication in them go direct by
default, is that under http/1.0, and for nearly every http/1.1 site,
they are uncachable, so going direct is a much better use of network
resources.
 
Rob
 

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