Re: [squid-users] Squid Basic auth (using ncsa) problem

Gil Disatnik wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have configured squid to use ncsa_auth as basic authentication,
> everything works except for 2 things:
>
> ** All under IE (5.5 and 6, win2k and XP):
>
> 1. For some reason once a user fails to enter a password he may not
> authenticate anymore and will have to reset the session (closing and
> reopening the browser).
> 2. This is the serious problem - whenever a user authenticates itself
> (successfully) for the first time he will get a 407 error and then he will
> have to refresh his browser in order to continue (from that point it works
> great).
>
 Try disable 'show friendly http errors' in the advance options
 of Internet options in IE.

 M.

> Mozilla works great with the basic auth module, however - it looks like an
> internal workaround rather than something wrong in IE as a small app we
> have here that authenticates itself with the proxy gets the same error (a
> 407 after a successful login).
>
> Regards
>
> Gil Disatnik
> UNIX system/security administrator.
>
> GibsonLP@EFnet
> http://www.disatnik.com
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