Re: [squid-users] change the authenticated username

On 28/08/2013 3:37 a.m., Attila Gömbös wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a complicated setup, where i need to accept the authorization
> of the downstream proxy. It is being sent with basic authorization.
>
> I use basic_fake_auth to accept it in any case.
> That works fine, but the problem is that the downstream proxy sends
> only "Proxy-Authorization Basic username_base64".
>
> How can i put a prefix on the squid for this user? Like domainname\username?
> (I will need it for Messagelabs...)

There is no "domain" in Basic authentication. See section #2 of
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt

What you think of as "domainname\" is part of the user login credentials
as far as Basic is concerned and needs to be sent by the downstream proxy.

Amos
Received on Wed Aug 28 2013 - 05:01:54 MDT