On Friday 06 October 2006 18:05, Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, I use a user/password basic authentication system in order to > validate users to use Internet through the Squid. I know the client > browser sends the password to the Squid in a Base-64 encoding way, so my > question is: > > Can the client browser send the password in an ENCRYPTED manner to the > Squid and not using Base-64 encoding ??? How can I do this ??
You can use digest authentication. Squid comes with a "digest_pw_auth" binary that you can use as an authenticator. See also the README.auth_module.digest_pw_auth I hope that one day the browsers will be able to use an SSL connection to the proxy. Let's start a petition. :) Christoph
