Re: [squid-users] How to program automatic http basic authentication

The redirector interface of Squid can be used to add user credentials on
forwarded requests by using the Internet URL standard syntax

  http://user:password@host/path/to/file

Meaning, if you use a redirector that for the sites in question makes
rewrites like

From: http://host/path/to/file
To: http://user:password@host/path/to/file

Then Squid will automatically log in as "user" with the password
"password", unless other credentials are supplied by the web browser.

Regards
Henrik

Mazott Supergrep wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm looking for a proxy feature devising a way that, transparently
> with respect of end user intervention, performs the basic http
> authetication on behalf of the user. The authentication would be done
> utilizing credentials automatically choosen upon the IP address of the
> user client. A fundamental prerequisite of the solution is that the
> credentials would be the same as the username/password pair of the
> Windows NT login.
> The definite purpose is avoiding the user filling his/her own
> credentials, when requested to do so through the authentication login
> window presented by the web server.
>
> To better motivate my need, please consider that the web application
> is not conveying sensitive data whatever, so
> the security functionality involved inside the
> authentication mechanism itself can be safely disregarded. On the
> other, hand the restrict access configuration of the web server is
> still desidered to implement a personalized working environment for
> the the specific user.
>
> So my question: is Squid, or any other proxy implementation/product to
> your knowledge, that could program such mechanism?
>
> Thank you for any hints!
>
> -- Marco
Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 06:35:48 MDT