On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:30, Chettawan Senapant. wrote: > I’m using backbone switch to route HTTP request to transparent squid and it > works fine. I know that no way (by now) to automatically pop up authen > screen for routed users while I’m using transparent proxy. But suppose I > have some firewall box or some thing that do firewalling routing and > Authentication placed between backbone and proxy then set the policy says > “whoever want to access the proxy server need to be authen on this URL > first”. Is this the possible solution ? and if it ,which software or > firewall can do that especially open source :)
AFAIK, Http authentication is based on client behaviour. First client sends authentication header to proxy. So You have to have this behaviour if you want to implement authentication. I understand you mean a kind of ACL instead of auth. Regards, Ilker G.
