transparent proxy: means all your outgoing port 80/443 requests are transparently redirected to the proxy irrespective of the users' proxy configuration. This is usually done at the perimeter router/firewall using iptables and destination NAT (or similar).
Whilst transparent proxying sounds attractive you CANNOT use this AND authentication at the same time. Think about it; if you were connecting to "www.foo.com" and got prompted for authentication credentials from something other than "www.foo.com" when you weren't expecting it, would be considered a "man-in-the-middle" type attack. However, if your browser is
I thought you couldn't transparent proxy SSL for the same man-in-the-middle reason.
dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
