[H-GEN] Redhat 9 + Squid

[Peter Arnold]

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Hi Ben,
>
> Has anybody had some experience with squid that is shipped with Redhat
> 9?

Not yet but I plan too although I'll probably roll my own rather than use
the included distrib.
>
> I am building a proxy server to replace an old NT4 machine, and squid
> seems to be having problems passing on the authentication from the
> client.
>
> Squid is setup to talk to an upstream proxy (There is no other access
> via port 80) with all request forced through the proxy.

So the clients are meant to authenticate against the second (or outer)
proxy? Do you have any details of this proxy? Is it an upstream service
like an ISP (unlikely I'd think given the requirement for authentication)?
<snip>
> The redhat 8 config file has the same problem with the web-browser
> brings up the Athentication dialog box, and after entering a valid l/p
> it just continues to bring up the box as if the password is incorrect.

So what you are saying is it didn't work before either :)

>
> I haven't had a chance to look into it in detail yet, and was just
> wondering if somebody had came across this problem yet..

Take a lok at the cache.log, it may tell you something.

Cheers
Peter Arnold



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