[1902] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Proxy Authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herve Schauer)
Wed Apr 24 14:13:05 1996
From: schauer@hsc.fr (Herve Schauer)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:19:40 +0200 (MEST)
In-Reply-To: <199604230715.PAA28240@public.bta.net.cn> from "etdrc@public.bta.net.cn" at Apr 23, 96 03:15:40 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In his/her message, etdrc@public.bta.net.cn wrote:
> I have a Netscape proxy server in our LAN.I browse information of
>many servers via Netscape proxy server.When I redirect from one information
>server to another, the Netsape proxy server don't prompt me to enter
>name/passwd again.But if I use CERN http server as my proxy server, it will
>ask my name/passwd every time when I redirect from one server to
>another.Could you tell me how Netscape proxy server solve this problem?
The Netscape proxy server use the Proxy authentication, as defined
in the HTTP 1.1 draft, like the HSC-GK gk-httpd proxy server. The
CERN proxy uses the Server authentication, not done for a proxy.
HERVE
