Re: Authentication pop-up with MS IE

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:19 am, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Serassio Guido wrote:
> > "You may have to use this registry key if you connect by using a proxy
> > server that is handling secure and non-secure requests on the same
> > server. One example of this behavior is the SQUID Proxy Server software.
> > Because Internet Explorer typically caches port information, it may not
> > send a secure request over the correct port number when it tries to send
> > secure and non-secure responses to the same server, but on different port
> > numbers."
>
> I wonder what they really meant to say..

Here's what I made of it: You've might need this registry entry if you have a
PAC file that directs http and https requests through different proxy ports.
Squid can support this split http/https config. Because IE takes shortcuts,
whichever port was selected at the time of the first request will continue to
be used. IE won't switch proxies correctly unless you change the registry
entry.

Same problem if your PAC tries to use different proxies depending on the url
path. For this reason I've been using the registry entry for about 12 months,
and I still get the popups for FTP icons.

Cheers
Gerard
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 16:48:47 MST