Re: [squid-users] Configuring Squid as an authentication proxy

> On fre, 2007-11-16 at 17:20 +0800, Jacky Sze-ki Yeung wrote:
> > I would like to setup a server or program that it can act as a proxy
> > and send an HTTP authentication by the proxy to a web server. The web
> > server requires an HTTP authentication password to access web pages.
> > Is it possible to configure a Squid Proxy server to get the web pages
> > from the web server to a client machine through Squid, with the
> > condition that Squid will authenticate with the web server but not the
> > client browser to authenticate it? Thanks.

On 17.11.07 13:45, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Yes. There is two ways Squid can add authentication to forwarded
> requests
>
> a) By the login= option when forwarding the request to a cache_peer.

iirc, in this case, the remote server has to be set up as a parent non-icp
cache (no-query and no-digest options) and requests must be sent to it using
cache_peer_domain. Am I right, Henrik?

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