The situation is seemingly hopeless:)

http-gw provides no authentication. I mean, "no", 'n' and 'o'.
The Gauntlet comes with "ahttp", an http proxy just for authentication, and
a one that calls http-gw for the rest.

squid provides authentication, but I won't run it on a FW. The fact that it 
provides
that nice thing called caching just means it was written for something 
elese than
security. so until audited, proved, ..., I won't run it on a FW.

I guess these gentlemen are suggesting using squid on an internal machine...


cheers,
mouss

At 14:39 24/03/01 +0100, Magic Phibo wrote:
>n Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Truman Boyes wrote:
> >any reason you choose http-gw over squid ?
>
>You could do authentication thru squid (ncsa-auth) and then forward the 
>requests
>to http-gw. You still benefit of the caching feature of squid and improve
>security by content filtering of the http-gw (activeX and so on..). Have a 
>look
>at the readme/faq of squid. It is well described how to do this.

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