[squid-users] Parent proxy login details

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 5/12/2014 5:17 a.m., Ivan Brazza wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Currently using squid 2.7 on Windows Server 2008 to forward all
> requests that come in through our corporate proxy to allow
> applications that don't support this to access the outside world
> (essentially doing what cntlm does). Now I was able to get this to
> work by using cache_peer's login=user:pass with my regular windows
> account. However, I need to use an account that has hyphens in the
> name to authenticate with the parent proxy. It seems that this
> doesn't work in squid, I tried using URL encoding for hyphens (%2D)
> so that -tsk-rst-nexus becomes %2Dtsk%2Drst%2Dnexus but that didn't
> work (I also tried with 2 %'s i.e. %%2D). Would anybody be able to 
> help me with this?
> 

When you are using login=user:pass in that form Squid just takes the
characters following "login=" and base-64 encodes them to become the
token for delivery to the peer. The hyphens are nothing special to
Squid, although they may be to the peer.

Amos

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