Tim Neto wrote: > 3'rd option: If the "https" is an approved site for your business, > school, or whatever organization, configure Squid to not require > authentication for the site. > Unfortunately, the whole reason for the authentication is to restrict access to a site that is outside of my control and exclusively https. Regrettably it is also the only site that the approved users ever go to, so they always have a shortcut to it on their desktop. > > Christoph Haas wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Martyn Bright wrote: > > > > > >That's a very annoying IE bug. If the first page you request is a HTTPS > >page *and* your proxy asks for authentication then the IE will strip off > >the protocol part from the URL. > > > >IMHO there is no bug fix out there yet. So you either work around it by > >first calling a http:// page and after authenticating switch to the > https:// > >page. Or you use another browser.
I wish I could - the site is very firmly written for IE and is beyond my control. Is there any way to authenticate on a peer to peer network without using Challenge/response with IE? Could I redirect to a web page on a local apache server and validate with a cgi script there and then return control to the initial URL? Martyn Bright
