On 7/19/05, Anthony Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to proxy authentication requests? The problem I'm > having is that I serve a LAN from a disk drive and forward (proxy) any > requests for content on remote servers. I cache the content that returns. > The problem is that some users request content from sites that require basic > authentication (not https). Currently if such a site is contacted, a > username/password dialog pops up but when the info is entered and OK is hit, > the dialog just pops up again and the request is not forwarded. This happens > three times and then it delivers an error (not authorized). Can anyone give > me some hints on how to get Apache to handle this basic authentication?
In general, apache httpd configured in forward-proxy mode (ProxyRequests On) handles basic auth forwarding just fine, as far as I know. So you'll need to give more details about how you have things configured (and what version you are using) if you want more help. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
