RE: [squid-users] Web Site Authentication

"Chris Robertson" <crobertson@gci.com> wrote on 08/02/2005 02:40:54 PM:

> > -----Original Message-----
>
> Cut for bevity. Here's a thread that should put some light on the
subject:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200406/0542.html
>
> Choice quotes:
> "NTLM authentication cannot be used with web proxy by Microsoft design."
>
> and
>
> "In Squid 2.5 there is a code section that blocks NTLM web
> authentication and get to you an authentication failure."
>
> Chris

Now that's just ridiculous! So my choices are:
(A) Convince the web site administrator to change their authentication
mechanism,
(B) Don't use a proxy, or
(C) Bypass the proxy for any site that uses NTLM authentication, which
means fiddling with the firewall for a bunch of crappy sites.

Not much of a choice. There has to be a way around this, otherwise proxy
servers are useless.

Sorry to sound like I'm ranting, but this kind of one vendor breaking
things for others junk is for the birds.

Scott
Received on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 12:58:48 MDT