Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy and authentication

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:30, Chettawan Senapant. wrote:
> I’m using backbone switch to route HTTP request to transparent squid and it
> works fine. I know that no way (by now) to automatically pop up authen
> screen for routed users while I’m using transparent proxy. But suppose I
> have some firewall box or some thing that do firewalling routing and
> Authentication placed between backbone and proxy then set the policy says
> “whoever want to access the proxy server need to be authen on this URL
> first”. Is this the possible solution ? and if it ,which software or
> firewall can do that especially open source :)

AFAIK, Http authentication is based on client behaviour. First client
sends authentication header to proxy. So You have to have this behaviour
if you want to implement authentication. I understand you mean a kind of
ACL instead of auth.

Regards,
Ilker G.
Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 02:16:35 MDT