Alright. Looks like this won't work.
Thanks for the time though, Amos. On 8 October 2012 21:00, Amos Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09.10.2012 13:05, Randall Maharaj wrote: >> >> Thanks Amos, >> >> I've decided to send the queries for the url to another parent proxy >> however this is breaking authentication. >> >> Do you know if there is a way to pass on the Parent's authentication >> to the client directly? >> > > If you mean passing authentication headers (both directions) through the > child proxy what you are looking for is "login=PASS" > see http://ww.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_peer/ for details. > > If you mean passing the credentials as after validating at the parent proxy > back to the client or child proxy. Then no, traffic flow where credentials > exist is strictly one-way: client -> your proxy -> parent proxy -> ... > > The reverse flow (parent->your proxy->client) only contains HTTP status code > indicating success/failure to fetch the resource and citing missing > credentials as one possible failure (401/407 status). > > Amos >
