Re: [squid-users] proxy auth with java applets

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:00:12 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Rolf wrote:

> is it possible to explain why with proxy authentication enabled, when a site
> is visited that wishe sto run an applet, a dialog seeking user credentials is
> displayed befor ethe applet will run?

This happens if you are using a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which does
not integrate with the browser properly, not sharing the proxy
authentication credentials with the browser.

> Is it meant (according to the protocols) to work like this?

How user agents (browsers etc) manages user credentials is completely
outside of the protocol. Authentication in the protocol is on a per
request basis (sessionless).

To avoid asking for the proxy password on each and every request the user
agent (browser) caches the login information and reuses the same
login+password on the next request automatically.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Apr 12 2005 - 04:00:16 MDT

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