Hi,

Did anyone come up with an authoritative config workaround for gmail 
attachments?  Google uses a flash app to upload multiple attachments, but at 
first glance it seems that:

 - the flash app can't do NTLM auth and
 - Whatever the flash app does to trigger the browser auth stops the browser 
from knowing it's a proxy request, so it pops up a dialog to the user.


I can't begin to imagine why other flash apps don't have this problem, but I've 
only seen it in gmail so far.

If I redirect mail.google.com and gmail.com to their https equivalents using 
http_access deny and deny_info https://mail.google.com, it predictably breaks 
the functionality of some page item requests, possibly because the URL is lost.

I've seen a post (from Amos I think) that included something like

##### GMail Redirection ######
acl bad_gmail dstdomain gmail.com
acl HTTP proto HTTP
cache_peer gmail.com parent  443 0 no-query
cache_peer_access gmail.com allow bad_gmail
cache_peer_access gmail.com deny !bad_gmail
never_direct deny HTTP bad_gmail
##############################

However, when I use this technique the browser can't load the page because it 
ends up in a redirect loop without "never_direct deny HTTP bad_gmail", but with 
this line included I get  an error that no peers are available and the cache is 
not permitted use the origin servers.

In any case I'm still inclined to think that hits against mail.google.com would 
still result in the same problem uploading attachments.

Has anyone properly solved this, or heard from google themselves on the matter?

Thank you!


-- 
Daniel Rose
National Library of Australia

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