Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy with authentication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:22:23 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Chin Kah Yi wrote:

> I see. Do you think the design where cookies were used to keep track of
> per-user authentication details at client browser is a feasible and good
> design?

It is a hack. And fails badly for all other applications than browsing as
it is not a standard authentication method so none of the methods of
specifying the proxy account in other applications works.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 12:22:27 MDT

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