Re: [squid-users] automatic authentication to squid proxy using http|ftp|https link

I am not sure I understand your question, but if you need the users to
log on to the web server (not the proxy), then if they are using
Netscape browsers and Squid is uses as proxy, then you can give them
links like

http://username:password@www.site/path/to/...

The official use of such links in Squid is to add web server
authentication to a request via a redirector helper.

If your problem is that the users need to log on to the proxy then you
can only do this by having the user use another proxy. This other proxy
could be a java servlet or even CGI program fetching the page from your
portal server, possibly via any proxy server. There is plenty of
libraries and standard functions for fetching HTTP content in most
languages, almost all including the needed stubs in how to authenticate
both to web servers and proxies.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer

Croci Fabrizio wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> my name is Fabrizio Croci and I am the italian Web Administrator of a
> multinational company.
>
> I'm writing to this email address instead of the squid-users
> newsgroup, because our corporate policy doesn't let us to access any
> newsgroups on the internet. So I hope you would answer this email.
>
> We are facing some troubles with squid proxy authentication.
> For reasons that are hard to explain shortly, we need to give some
> internal people access to the internet, only to go to a specific web
> server.
> It means we could not enable their username/password to access the
> internet and we could not communicate them which username/password to
> use for accessing that web server.
>
> In our idea, the best solution is to provide them a link inside our
> intranet portal. In this way, they simply click on the link, pass
> through the squid proxy and access the internet server.
>
> Of course, we need to establish a sort of automatic authentication to
> the proxy.
> We are looking for a programming solution at run-time.
>
> I hope this problem could be interesting for you and above all easy to
> solve
> :-)))
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 20:21:04 MST