[squid-users] Auth bearer support for forward proxy

Panagiotis Bariamis akismpa at gmail.com
Sun May 20 09:18:48 UTC 2018


On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz>
wrote:

> On 18/05/18 04:32, Panagiotis Bariamis wrote:
> >> Hello ,
> >> Only thing I have found concerning the subject is this 4 years old
> thread :
> >>
> >>>From: Amos Jeffries
> >>>Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:46:09 +1200
> >>>
> >>>I have implemented Bearer authentication support in Squid and have found
> >>>a noticible lack of support in clients for the 407 status Proxy-Auth*
> >>>headers, even where Bearer support is advertized and working via 401
> >>>status WWW-Auth*.
> >>>
> >>>Can any of the client implementers (Browsers in particular) please point
> >>>out if they do support Bearer login to a proxy and what restrictions
> >>>they have on it actually working?
> >>>
> >>>Amos Jeffries
> >>>The Squid Software Foundation
> >>>
> >> Does  anyone know if browsers have implemented since then support for
> >> bearer authentication for Proxy-Auth ?
> >>
>
> >AFAIK the situation has not changed. Except that there are now several
> >CDN providers using Bearer authentication in reverse-proxies.
> >
> >I have been keeping the auth-bearer branch up to date with Squid-5. So
> >if you wish to try it out it should work okay (and safely). You will
> >need to provide your own authentication helper to interface with
> >whatever OAuth systems you use.
>
> >Amos
>
> Thank you very much for the info .
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