Squid-2.5 is not case sensitive on the authentication scheme names, and
to my knowledge neither was Squid-2.4 but I have not verified if this
was the case.

Try upgrading to Squid-2.5. If you still have problems register a Squid
bug for the issue.

Regards
Henrik


ons 2003-03-05 klockan 15.05 skrev Eric Galarneau:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have an issue where people using Windows Media player 9 are unable to
> listen webcast through squid 2.4-STABLE7 proxy server using NCSA proxy
> authentication. Previous versions of Media Player have no problem. Doing a
> network trace I found that the only difference is Media player 9 sends
> "Proxy-Authentication : basic whatever \r\n" with a lower case "b" for
> basic. Previous version of Media player and even IE or Mozilla send "Basic"
> with a capital "B" instead. This seems to make a difference and I suspect
> this is why it's not working (Squid returns a 407 error code).
> 
> The thing is I don't know if that has to be case sensitive. I need to know
> who's fault between Media Player 9 and Squid NCSA. Anybody can bring light?
> I did not found anything in RFC's saying it should be case sensitive or not.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric.
-- 
Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MARA Systems AB, Sweden

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