Re: [squid-users] squid , rsync and authentication

Jean-Jacques ROUGET wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying downloading file with rsync through a squid proxy
> squid-2.6.STABLE18.
> Squid authenticates users so I fill in RSYNC_PROXY.
> To ensure there's no mistake with user or password, I fill in http_proxy
> in the same manner (copy/paste).
> Using wget is OK.
> Using rsync always return the following:
> bad response from proxy -- HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication
> The squid logs also report this 407 code.
>
> Anybody knows where I'm wrong or what's wrong?

Rsync is not passing the authentication details on in the
Proxy_Authentication headers properly. You could trace the HTTP request
sent by rsync and try to figure it out.

It's probably an issue that needs discussing on the rsync user lists.

Amos

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