Re: [SQU] Can't login hotmail, yahoo mail (Authentication Required sites), cookies problem?

> Philip Chan wrote:
>
> > And yahoo mail loops the login screen as try to login with valid login
name and
> > password.

I had same experience before. Do you run transparent proxy?

 If not, Hendrik is 100% correct. Problem source come from cookies.
Otherwise, you should set the "httpd_accel_uses_host_header" to be ON.

I spent time for 3 weeks to find out the solution. Fortunately, Henrik,
John, and Brian were kindly helping me.

>
> > Part of my current squid.conf
> >
> > hierarchy_stoplist ^http://*hotmail.com
> > hierarchy_stoplist ^http://*yahoo.com

My squid.conf only had lines "hierarchy_stoplist hotmail.com" as FAQ section
Troubleshooting.

Hope this will help.

Awie

> >
> > anonymize_headers allow Allow Authorization Cache-Control
> > anonymize_headers allow Content-Encoding Content-Length
> [...]
>
> You might want to add the Cookie header to that list to enable the use
> of Cookie based logins... (almost all where you get a HTML form for the
> login instead of the standard login popup).
>
> An you should know that careless use of anonymization features will
> break some web sites making use of
> a) Browser type (to select IE or Netscape type of pages)
> b) Cookies (for logins, sessions and similar things)
> c) Content negotiation (similar to a, but more on preferred file types)
> d) Language negoitation (similar to a, but to select your preferred
> language)
>
> Often it is easier to deny the few headers that you do not want to have
> than to allow the ones you want.
>
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> Henrik Nordstrom
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