Re: [squid-users] securing proxy authentication

Graeme Wood wrote:
> He didn't misunderstand you. The only way to do what you want is to use
> Digest or NTLM authentication. This means that you must use Internet
> Explorer, as this is the only browser that supports these methods. If you
> cannot mandate the use of that browser, then you are stuck with supporting
> base64 encoded passwords. It is sad but true and I wish it were otherwise.

There is another alternative (also Squid-2.5) and it is to use SSL for the
proxy connections. However, to my knowledge none of the browsers supports SSL
enabled proxies.

It is very hard to do stuff without support in the browsers.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 30 2002 - 09:59:45 MDT