RE: [squid-users] squid digest proxy authentication fails with Java Web Start

I see the denials in the access log.

This JVM does support proxy authentication (basic, digest and ntlm)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.elsen@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:27 PM
To: Mato Mira, Fernando (DIA CHE)
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid digest proxy authentication fails with
Java Web Start

> I have a JWS application written using URLConnection so that it
handles
> all the proxy authentication stuff automatically. When Java Web Start
> lauches, it asks
> for the proxy credentials (digest), and it works for downloading the
> application, but when this
> starts and tries to connect to the same host and port, the Java
runtime
> asks for the proxy credentials again
> and keeps on asking. One can never get past this dialog.
>
  Is anything reported, then, in access.log and or cache.log ?

> I've tried both with squid 2.5 and 3.0pre3 and it's the same. I was
> using Java 1.5.0_05
>

 The problem may that this JVM version, does not support digest auth and
 or proxy authentication at all.

 M.
Received on Tue Feb 07 2006 - 08:10:23 MST