RE: Small question about the caching of password protected pages

How about Proxy Authentication? For example, if I have three proxies
chained together and the middle one is doing authentication, will the proxy
closest to the user serve up documents in its cache to an unauthenticated
user, or will it not cache anything and pass all requests up to the middle?

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nottingham, Mark (Australia)
> [SMTP:mark_nottingham@exchange.au.ml.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:15 PM
> To: 'Simon Austin'; squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: RE: Small question about the caching of password protected
> pages
>
> I've done extensive testing with recent versions of Squid, and can say
> authoritatively that they do not cache pages with HTTP authentication.
>
> If you can reproduce the behavior in a 'clean' environment (you see the
> activity, you can confirm that the browser hasn't previously requested the
> objects in the same session, you can confirm that the objects don't have
> the
> headers mentioned), you might be on to something; it would be interesting
> to
> find out what version of Squid were being used, as well as if there were
> any
> other proxies in the path (the Squid might be using another proxy as a
> parent).
>
> Otherwise, I'd tend to think it was just a misperception/false report by
> the
> user; they aren't generally reliable, doubly so with salespeople ;-)
>
> If you can give me the URL of the site and a test user/pass pair, I'll be
> happy to test it with a few different caches...
>
Received on Thu Feb 11 1999 - 07:37:48 MST