I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system running the latest Squid 2.5 release. It's set up as a reverse proxy, but I want it to automatically authenticate to the one device it's supposed to proxy for. In other words, I have a device that requires username and password (I'm guessing using simple WWW-Authenticate headers since it's a firmware web server), and I want to pass that info, transparently to the user, via Squid.
The reasons behind this are somewhat complicated, but I've looked and looked through the FAQ's and archives and can't find a clear explanation on how to do this. Do I need to use something similar to the cache_peer directive? It does have an option for username:password, but I don't think this will work, as I gather from what I've read that this method uses ICP rather than HTTP. Any thoughts? Cheers, Darton Williams
