On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Darton Williams wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system running the latest Squid 2.5 release. It's set
> up as a reverse proxy, but I want it to automatically authenticate to the
> one device it's supposed to proxy for. In other words, I have a device that
> requires username and password (I'm guessing using simple WWW-Authenticate
> headers since it's a firmware web server), and I want to pass that info,
> transparently to the user, via Squid.
There is two ways
a) cache_peer based forwarding, using the login= cache_peer option.
b) Use a redirector helper to add the login information to the forwarded
URL. Squid understands the URL syntax http://user:password@host/ and will
automatically translate this into Basic HTTP authenticaiton.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Mar 11 2004 - 15:45:11 MST
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