Re: Join to discuss NTLM Authentication

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:27, Gary Price (ICT) wrote:
> > - detect when NTLM auth is required
> yes
> > say, by looking at response headers.
> by looking at the request headers.
> ---------------------
> Henrik
> thanks for your words of wisdom. Questions...
> 1. The first indication that NTLM is required is that the server responds with 401, and requests NTLM authentication. So the first
> thing to look at is the response header from the origin server. Subsequently you can look at request headers. Or at least so I
> thought. Can you expand on that part a little?

Have a look at http://devel.squid-cache.org/ntlm - it applies equally to
origin servers (just with 401 instead of 407).

> 2. I am know nothing of what squid is doing with piplined requests - is it implementing something like HTTP/1.1? Is there somewhere
> I can read about it? Not that it matters, as I will switch it off for
> the relevant connections.

Yes, HTTP/1.1 is the right place to read.

Rob

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