> From: Asif Saleem
>
> When a client sends a request to a proxy server for the first time,
> how does the proxy server determine the realm of that request? My
> hunch is that it is based on the Request-URI.

Usually, the proxy does not attempt to do that.  Instead, in the 407
response, it supplies a Proxy-Authenticate header for every realm it would
be willing to accept.  The UA then resubmits the request with a
Proxy-Authorization header for one or more of those realms.

Dale

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