Re: authentication problem

Dancer wrote:

> I've been working with the guys from Novell about getting
> Border-Manager to behave with an upstream squid doing
> authentication. The solution we came up with was to have BM
> cache, but send an IMS request upstream if there was a
> cache-hit (and it 'knows' [that is, it is configured to
> know] that an upstream proxy does proxy-auth), and if it
> gets a 407 to challenge the end-user, verify those
> credentials with a subsequent IMS, and then return the
> cached object as needed. A bit ugly, and a little wasteful
> of traffic, but workable.

I think I get the idea.

If configured for upstream authentication then use IMS on every request
to verify user credentials. only-if-cached should probably be added to
avoid wasting additional bandwidth.

/Henrik
Received on Sat Oct 30 1999 - 08:48:08 MDT