You can use a telnet Telnet hostname 80 GET url HTTP/1.1 Host: hostname Enter enter And see what comes back It strike me squid is not passing back the headers or you would see the browser pop up, but squid *is* seeing the challenge since it fails with 403. Now do same telnet direct to page and see the difference Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:45:01 To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: .htaccess files not working from internet? intranetaccess fine matt farey wrote: > Did you ever investigate the response headers or lookup basic auth in squid? > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > Thanks for the response Matt!! I haven't checked the headers so will need to run Wireshark on it. Checked out basic auth in Squid and posted a line of conf which I thought was viable: #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server after restarting however I got the same issue. When I get back later I'll do more Google'ing on it as I have to run out now as meeting for a job interview (currently transitioning between ex-student and IT/networking proffessional (make that junior))!! I think output from Wireshark will help you guys help me out more provided I don't get the issue fixed before hand :-) Thanks again for the response!! Regards, Kaya --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx