Hi, I found that squid does not authenticate the users with the NTLM scheme when using the CONNECT method. The problem occurs because the proxy sends a "Proxy-Connection: close" during the second phase of the NTLM authentication. This may occurs because the JVM does not send the "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive" when it makes the request to the proxy. Is there some way to force persistent connections with some clients? Or at least to force persistent connections with NTLM authentication? The following data is the request/response that I got: CONNECT www2.bancobrasil.com.br:443 HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (Windows 2000 5.0) Java/1.5.0_03 Host: www2.bancobrasil.com.br Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2 Proxy-authorization: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB7IAogUABQAzAAAACwALACgAAAAFAJMIAAAAD0NBTVBPR1JBTkRFTVBERlQ= HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication Required Server: squid/2.5.STABLE9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:40:28 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 1361 Expires: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:40:28 GMT X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0 Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAACAAAAAAAAADAAAAASAgAAZTxCam1EiM0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwAAAA X-Cache: MISS from bart.mpdft.gov.br Proxy-Connection: close -- TIA, Robson Paniago