RE: [squid-users] Transparent proxy to upstream authenticating proxy

From Henrik Nordstrom
>Form: Vosloo, Jaco:
>> The browser is configured to use the upstream proxy. I want the
>> transparent proxy to be a MITM between the browser and the upstream
>> proxy and cache whatever can be cached. This is why I am wondering
if a
>> reverse proxy in front of the upstream proxy might provide the
solution?
>
>You need to use the "login=PASS" argument in cache_peer when forwarding
>the traffic, and configure your Squid as a non-transparent proxy even
if
>it has traffic redirected to it via NAT. The "transparent" option
>applies only when the browsers is not configured to use a proxy, not
>when the browser is configured to use a proxy but is being sent via NAT
>to another proxy than configured.

Thank you Hendrik and Amos for your help, I will try your advice right
away.

Blue Coat is making my life very difficult, according to my support
contact they do not support having a squid proxy in peer configuration.
Have anyone on the list configured a Squid peer to a Blue coat proxy
with authentication?

Regards
Jaco Vosloo
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Received on Mon Jul 27 2009 - 12:28:50 MDT