Re: [squid-users] Authentication Issues I think

This is an IE6 bug. More quite detailed information can be found in
the squid-users archives some weeks back.

Regards
Henrik

On Thursday 12 December 2002 07.48, Tom Bell wrote:
> Howdy All,
> This problem is probably very simple and may
> not even be a problem and I will surely get subsequently
> flamed.
>
> I have searched the mailing list as per the website's
> recommendation.
>
> I'm currently running squid 2.4.STABLE6 on Debian 3 with
> kernel 2.4.18. I've set up smb_auth and it is working a
> treat.
>
> The problem that I suffer is that when you open a browser
> you are presented with a pop-up box for authentication.
> After typing in your credentials it presents you with a
> "The page cannot be displayed". This is with IE6. I haven't
> had a chance to test with other versions of the browser as
> none are available at this site.
>
> The error page also states at the bottom "Cannot find server
> or DNS Error" and the page is an obvious IE page not one
> generated from squid.
>
> If you hit F5 it will happily pull the page from the cache
> and it will get every other page until such time as you close the
> window and re-auth with your next launching of IE where it will
> fail to retrieve the first page and succeed on everyone after.
>
> The squid cache looks OK eg it generates the 407 auth required
> but then doesn't seem to get a subsequent request.
>
> The smb_auth packages works fine and has been tested from the
> command line with the -d option.
>
> Access log follows :
>
> 1039675068.747 1 192.168.100.218 TCP_DENIED/407 1204 GET
> http://www.nct.com.au/ - NONE/- -
>
> Above is the initial request for auth details. After a successful
> auth you get the earlier described page. Once you hit F5 the below
> lines appear
> and the rest of the page is retrieved.
>
> 1039675075.090 594 192.168.100.218 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 293 GET
> http://www.nct.com.au/ test NONE/- text/html
> 1039675075.098 8 192.168.100.218 TCP_IMS_HIT/304 273 GET
> http://www.nct.com.au/pics/spacer.gif test NONE/- image/gif
>
> This happens on any webpage. Not just the one in the above example.
>
> Any help at all on this issue would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Tom Bell
> NCT Computers
Received on Thu Dec 12 2002 - 01:47:53 MST