Re: [squid-users] Credentials Forwarding

So, does that mean I'll have to set up squid as an accelerator for the
web server I want to pass the login name to?

If not, I'm completely confused as to how I would set the cache_peer
option.

Thanks!

--- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Christopher Vaughan wrote:
>
> > I saw where this was mentioned back in 2000 on the list, but I
> haven't
> > been able to find an answer. Here is the scenario:
> >
> > I've got Apache2 and Squid running on the same (linux) machine.
> Users
> > are authenticated to squid using ntlm_auth. For applications on the
> web
> > server, I would like to use the credentials provided to Squid via
> NTLM.
>
> NTLM can not be proxied, but you can set Squid to forward the login
> name
> to Apache. See the login= cache_peer option. Squid does this by
> faking an
> Basic HTTP authentication heder.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 01 2004 - 12:20:53 MDT