Hello, thanks for your replies. indeed you can add the user details in the URI.
but i wonder without squid the popup appears again..so there is an issue with squid, not ? this has been tested with firefox 3.0, 3.5, IE7, opera 10. thank you, uxmax ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- Von: "Amos Jeffries" <squ...@treenet.co.nz> An: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hen...@henriknordstrom.net> CC: ux...@enquid.net, "Squid Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 23:06:10 Betreff: Re: [squid-users] Squid ftp authentication popup On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:43:43 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom <hen...@henriknordstrom.net> wrote: > tis 2009-10-06 klockan 16:20 +0200 skrev ux...@enquid.net: >> Hello all, >> >> my problem is that squid does not send auth dialog box back to the client >> (sender/browser) ie*, firefox etc. >> >> simple example >> >> http://upload.ftpserver.com (auth popup appears) >> >> >> ftp://upload.ftpserver.com (popup does not appear) >> >>the authentication popup does not appear but this error message, most likely >>the brower tried an anonymous connection >>---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip >>(ERROR >>The requested URL could not be retrieved >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: >>ftp://upload.dunkel.de/ >> >>Squid sent the following FTP command: >> >>PASS <yourpassword>and then received this reply >>Login incorrect.Your cache administrator is root. >>---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip >> > That URL is by definition anonymous FTP. > > To access non-anonymous FTP you need to use > > ftp://user:passw...@ftp.example.com/ > > With some browsers you can leave out the :password part and Squid will > prompt the browser for login credentials, but some of the main browsers > do not support this. > > Regards > Henrik Firefox-3.x wil happyily popup the ftp:// auth dialog if the proxy-auth header is sent. There were a few bugs which got fixed in the 3.1 re-writes and made squid start to send it properly. It's broken in 3.0, not sure if its the same in 2.x but would assume so. The fixes done rely on C++ objects so wont be easy to port. Amos
