<div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Hey everyone. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">I'm trying to get a minimal forward proxy with authentication set up. I have the following config (purposely kept as minimal as possible) and have followed these steps - <a href="https://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/</a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">squid.conf --- </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwords auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl auth proxy_auth REQUIRED http_port 3128 http_access deny !auth http_access allow auth http_access deny all </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">--- </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">However, no matter what I do I always get a 407 Proxy Authentication Required response from the proxy. I've been testing with "curl -v -U <usernamen>:<password> -x localhost:3128 <url>" I must be missing something very simple so what am I doing wrong? </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:1rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Thank you.</div></div>