[squid-users] Media Player 9 and NCSA authentication

Hi all,

We have an issue where people using Windows Media player 9 are unable to
listen webcast through squid 2.4-STABLE7 proxy server using NCSA proxy
authentication. Previous versions of Media Player have no problem. Doing a
network trace I found that the only difference is Media player 9 sends
"Proxy-Authentication : basic whatever \r\n" with a lower case "b" for
basic. Previous version of Media player and even IE or Mozilla send "Basic"
with a capital "B" instead. This seems to make a difference and I suspect
this is why it's not working (Squid returns a 407 error code).

The thing is I don't know if that has to be case sensitive. I need to know
who's fault between Media Player 9 and Squid NCSA. Anybody can bring light?
I did not found anything in RFC's saying it should be case sensitive or not.

Thanks,

Eric.
Received on Wed Mar 05 2003 - 07:06:48 MST