[squid-users] Re: NTLM through proxy server?

Chris Robertson wrote:
> Diego Woitasen wrote:
>> I read a mail of five years ago saying that NTLM auth. can't pass
>> through a proxy server. Is this limitation protocol specific or is a
>> Squid problem? If it a squid problem then is working now?
>
> From my understanding the limitation was protocol specific (NTLM auth
> violated the HTTP spec)

Indeed, NTLM auth requires two consecutive requests to be sent over the
same TCP connection. It is possible to write agents that behave as a
"man in the middle" for this protocol (see http://jcifs.samba.org/,
Newsgroup gmane.network.samba.java).

Regards,

Oliver Schoett
Received on Fri Aug 24 2007 - 07:19:30 MDT