[squid-users] HTTP 407 responses

Hi team,

I'm trying to set up an authenticating squid proxy with a nice login box
rather than the one the browser pops up with a HTTP 407 request... Does
anyone know how to do this? The main reasons for this are (1) to make it
look nice (2) so that I don't have to tell people to put in DOMAIN\user
into the box, (3) put some instructions as to what is going on and (4) to
add a limited guest login option.

This is where I am so far...

- I've got NTLM authentication working
- I've got a nice login page in ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED
and ERR_ACCESS_DENIED
- I've still got to write the bit to authenticate people, but I'm not too
worried about that.

Highlights from my squid.conf file looks like this:

auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 45

acl authdUsers proxy_auth REQUIRED

http_access deny !authdUsers ### Kicks up a 407 request
http_access deny all

The second last line is the tricky one - I can see why the line

http_access allow authdUsers

would trigger a 407 request, but I'd hoped the deny ! option would get
around this.

Any ideas? I've promised I'll get this going be the end of the week...

any help would be really handy.

thanks

Jim Potter
UK
Received on Mon Feb 13 2012 - 15:15:47 MST