Re: [squid-users] Accelerated Proxy with Proxy-Auth and Server-Auth

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:08:45 +0100

Mark Wallis wrote:

> The problem occurs when the application on the web server wants Basic
> authentication also. It looks like the 401 code for authorisation makes it
> back to the user okay with the different Realm but when the user sends their
> details back Squid picks them up thinking they belong to it's authentication
> ....... it doesn't just pass them through to the web server. Hence since the
> second authentication is a different user/pass to the first Squid fails the
> authentication and denies the access.

There can only be one level of authentication in HTTP.

If both the Squid accelerator and the backend web server requires
authentication then the login must be identical on both, and Squid must
be configured to pass the login information back to the web server (see
the cache_peer options).

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Mar 24 2003 - 00:37:03 MST

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