On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mark Chatterton wrote:

> I am setting up a transparent squid proxy.  I am having a problem where
> it doesn't want to accept my username & password and just ends up
> failing.  BUT if i point the same PC's browser at the proxy server
> (192.168.0.1:8080) it prompts for the user & accepts the same user i
> typed in the first time.  The "allowed" domains work fine.

Short version: a transparent proxy cant use authentication.
Longer version: To whom or to what should the browser authenticate if the 
browser doesnt know that there's a proxy involved? To the requested 
website? Well, that would break a lot of things, wouldn't it?

> I have had a
> hunt around the web but haven't got anywhere so hopefully someone can
> see what i have missed.

Google gives: 
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200005/0713.html

Danny
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