Re: [squid-users] Reverse proxy authentication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:10:40 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Mohammad Meskarian wrote:

> I have problem with Squid when is working as reverse proxy. I want to
> put squid between my web server and internet world and do authentication
> before opening or forwarding any Traffic to my actual webserver.

> Reverse proxy configuration is working with no problem and squid forward
> the traffic to my web server properly But as soon as I apply any access
> list with authentication simply deny all access and doesn allow any
> connection.

What Squid version are you using?

If using Squid-2.X then you need to enable a hidden define to activate
authentication in accelerator mode (AUTH_ON_ACCEL if I remember
correctly). This due to a major conflict with the support for transparent
proxying.

In Squid-3 it should work out of the box.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 04:38:25 MST

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