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Use squid to perform upstream web proxy authentication
Authored by: pmccann on Mar 01, '03 02:18:55AM

Thanks very much for taking the time to document this: my university uses an authenticating proxy server, and the apple apps have been hamstrung by their inability to communicate through that server. Authoxy is a partial answer, but this seems to fill in all the missing pieces. Takes a little setting up, but *works*.

(I installed via fink as per the first comment. In case anyone's wondering about the user creation piece of the puzzle: just duplicate the sshd user using NetinfoManager, change the user ID to something not in use, change the name to "squid" and then save your changes. Consider all the usual warnings as given. You'll now need to chase down the relevant files/directory and change the owner/group as per the hint: I changed /sw/etc/squid.conf /sw/sbin/squid /sw/var/cache/squid /sw/var/log/squid /sw/etc/daemons/squid-ssl.xml which might be more than needed.)

Cheers,
Paul



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Use squid to perform upstream web proxy authentication
Authored by: houchin on Mar 02, '03 03:41:41PM

One more note I just discovered.

If you're not running a local firewall and want to prevent others from using your local proxy, you can change the "http_access allow all" line to "http_access allow localhost"

This works with Chimera/Camino, and probably Mozilla/Netscape, and will deny anyone trying to proxy through your system. It will NOT work with Internet Explorer, which appears to not make a loopback connection to localhost. I had to change it back to all to get IE to work (which I unfortunately must use to get reasonable Flash performance so my daughter can maintain her Elmosworld.com addiction.



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