Re: [squid-users] Squid, NTLM and Java (Authentication)

> Hello
>
> We have a squid proxy (Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE9) on a
> Linux server (Linux hostname_of_server 2.4.19 #1 Fri Oct 4 18:36:11 EDT
> 2002 sparc64 GNU/Linux) which uses NTLM and Basic authentication
> (in this order) for access control.
> Web browsing w/ IE or Mozilla runs without any problem.
> Unfortunately a few of our customers try to use java applets or
> java applications which try to connect to the internet to.
> The users are prompted for username, password and domain. This
> means that NTLM scheme is used.
> This window appears again and again. The logfile of squid reports
> only 407 errors, but the credentials are correct.
> To find out what's wrong I sniffed the network connection.
> The only thing which looked strange to me was that the Java
> application doesn't send "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive". Other
> applications/browsers send this header information.
>
> Any ideas how to convice java to send this header or to
> reconfigure squid to be able to auth java applications.
>

 This has been discussed in the past. Basically if the JVM in the browser
does not support inhereting of browser credential , you run into this issue.
There is nothing you can do about this.
Perhaps as a workaround. Configure the http access rules in such
a manner that the java application can run unauthenticated w.r.t.
the proxy.

M.
Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 05:55:45 MDT