Re: [squid-users] A couple of queries.

Ian.Large@salvesen.com wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I've posted this previously but didn't get a response so I'm trying again.
>
> When clients visit some sites they are repeatedly prompted by their
> browsers for authentication to the proxy. It doesn't matter if this is the
> first request for a site that requires auth (we've a few "free-access"
> sites) or if they've been surfing for some time. If the authentication
> information is entered then a little more of the page is displayed;
> repeatedly hitting Cancel on the authentication dialog does similar
> although some portions of the page don't load. There are no errors showing
> in cache.log.
>
> Anybody got any ideas? I'm sure I've seen similar posts before on this
> list but a goodly amount of time searching the archives and google hasn't
> matched my problem.
>
> Information: the servers are both identical RHEL 3.0 ES boxes running the
> latest versions as supplied by Red Hat (kernel 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp and
> squid-2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.8). They run basic authentication using
> squid_ldap_auth against a couple of active directory servers and finally
> all traffic is routed using redirectors to Websense Enterprise 5.5 which
> does content filtering.

Are you doing transparent proxying?