Hi,

here is my issue :
I am using Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE7 and it is working nicely with one issue that I haven't been able to solve.
I have a remote website that requires authentication. From what I understood, the authentication window needs to be pass through squid: Maybe more like squid requests the remote site the authentication window. After some readings, I modified cache_peer as such to begin with.

cache_peer hostname sibling 80 0 login=PASS

That resulted every single time in a 401 error

I tried to add

cache_peer_access hostname allow all --> but to no avail

After more hours of reading I added this

never_direct deny all --> Again, to no avail.

Actually when I decided to reboot my box, I could not connect at all to the any sites as I was getting every time the 401 error. Now its all back to normal but my external HTTP website which is still giving me the 401 error. I do not know the type of authentication my external website is using. May be that is why I can't solve my issue. The type of authentication on that website might just not be compatible with Squid; but I am not authenticating with squid but passing through it...

When I actually try to connect to my external website, my browser (firefox) detect the user name without any input from me. it just does not give me the opportunity to input my password. That's why I end up with a 401 error

Would appreciate any help on that one

Kind Regards,

I have moved forward a little bit.
As I thought, the issue is not the authentication really but the http header. Basically, basic authentication uses the www-Authenticate HTTP header, and guess what - I have mine set to deny all.
I did a test and actually turn off this directive in my configuration file and I can log in into my remote website. So I have found my problem but I still have no solution to it. Indeed, I am now faced with the challenge of setting a custom header file for my remote website. I did try this:

acl cdnCustomHeader req_header ^hostname

I got this in response:

No pattern defined 'hostname'
empty ACL

I am stuck again but having a lot of fun....

I would appreciate any input...

Kind Regards,