Re: [squid-users] Authentication on loading an Internet Shortcut

Philip Hachey wrote:

>Since switching to Squid for our proxy, some of our users are experiencing
>the following problem:
>
>When Internet Explorer is not yet loaded and authentication with Squid
>(using basic authentication) has therefore not yet been performed by the
>client, opening an Internet Shortcut from their Windows desktop pops up an
>authentication dialogue. Immediately after authenticating, an error is
>displayed as attached below.
>
>This error only occurs for shortcuts to certain sites (ASP related
>perhaps?) and not all client workstations experience the problem even
>though the shortcuts are the same. It's been witnessed on Windows 98 and
>Windows XP workstations, but not all XP workstations encounter the
>problem.
>
>After getting this error, refreshing Internet Explorer loads the page with
>no errors. Also, if the user's Internet Explorer is already loaded and
>authenticated with Squid, then opening the desktop shortcut does not
>produce an error.
>
>Has anyone else experienced a problem similar to this? Is it a known
>problem? Is there a resolution?
>
>Many thanks,
>Philip Hachey
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Sounds very much like an old FAQ...
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.13

Chris
Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 13:10:05 MDT