Re: [squid-users] Squid and Hangout (google) problem

Hi Guys

I was wondering did Google Hangouts video work for you after you
upgraded from 3.1?

Mohamed

> Thank you Amos..
>
> I have Squid Cache: Version 3.1.19
> So it work only with HTTP/1.0??
>
> If Yes I have to upgrade it.
>
>
>
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> 2013/5/28 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> > On 28/05/2013 7:03 p.m., Carlo Filippetto wrote:
> >>
> >> 2013/5/28 Amos Jeffries:
> >>
> >>> On 28/05/2013 2:38 a.m., Carlo Filippetto wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a squid server with NTLM_auth. Now we want to use the
> >>>> google-hangout to made video conference, but squid stops the video
> >>>> session with a 407 (TCP_DENIED).
> >>>>
> >>>> Someone can help me to solve this problem?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "407 Proxy Authentication Requried" gets sent to the client when no auth
> >>> credentials are delivered by it to the proxy. NTLM is a nasty protocol
> >>> which
> >>> requires several request-reply sequences involving 407 status code and
> >>> various tokens to be sent to-and-fro. This may be what you are spotting
> >>> in
> >>> the logs.
> >>>
> >>> This might also help ...
> >>>
> >>> http://answers.awesomium.com/questions/1343/using-ntlm-to-authenticate.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Amos
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Amos,
> >> my problem is not NTLM, I use NTLM from more the 5 years..
> >> The problem is Hangout software, if you tried to do a con (not video)
> >> it works, but if you tried to make a video-conference it doesn't work.
> >> May be the encoding?
> >
> >
> > Yes, as you say the problem is not NTLM itself. And since you have been
> > using it successfully for so long probably not Squid either.
> > You should herefore take this up with the Hangout software help channels,
> > not the Squid ones.
> >
> > And no, encoding does not matter to Squid unless you have an old Squid which
> > is still version 3.1 or older (HTTP/1.0 features) and Hangout requiring
> > HTTP/1.1 features for the stream. The solution there should be obvious.
> >
> > Amos

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