Re: [squid-users] Auth per url

Alright.

Looks like this won't work.

Thanks for the time though, Amos.

On 8 October 2012 21:00, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 09.10.2012 13:05, Randall Maharaj wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Amos,
>>
>> I've decided to send the queries for the url to another parent proxy
>> however this is breaking authentication.
>>
>> Do you know if there is a way to pass on the Parent's authentication
>> to the client directly?
>>
>
> If you mean passing authentication headers (both directions) through the
> child proxy what you are looking for is "login=PASS"
> see http://ww.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_peer/ for details.
>
> If you mean passing the credentials as after validating at the parent proxy
> back to the client or child proxy. Then no, traffic flow where credentials
> exist is strictly one-way: client -> your proxy -> parent proxy -> ...
>
> The reverse flow (parent->your proxy->client) only contains HTTP status code
> indicating success/failure to fetch the resource and citing missing
> credentials as one possible failure (401/407 status).
>
> Amos
>
Received on Tue Oct 09 2012 - 01:14:00 MDT