On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:03 +1200, Tom Barnfield wrote: > I have added the lines below to my squid conf file: > > cache peer <IP address of parent proxy server> parent 3128 0 no-query > default > acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 > never_direct allow all > > With these lines added, the requests do appear to be directed to the parent > proxy and the authentication window for the parent pops up. When the > username and password are entered and OK is clicked, the authentication > window pops up again. The user never gets past the authentication request. > > If I remove the 3 lines above, the local caching server works OK, without > going through the authenticating parent. That's by design of the HTTP protocol: proxy chaining was not taken into consideration when designing authentication. To pass on credentials to the upstream proxy you can use the "login=PASS" configuration option in squid 3.0, not sure about squid 2.5. Kinkie
