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Re: TCP_DENIED/407 when using NCSA-AUTH and video streaming

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Werner Opriel wrote:
Am Sonntag, 11. Juli 2010 schrieb Amos Jeffries:
Werner Opriel wrote:
We are using a debian-Package of Squid 2.7 Stable3 on a Debian Lenny
machine with ncsa-auth configured, acting as a central Internet-Proxy.

All Users/Passwords are stored in /etc/squid/passwd on localhost and only
authenticated users are allowed to surf on sites outside the intranet.
There are no problems with authentication so far.

But we have a problem playing videos from the side http://www.wdr.de,
they do provide media-streams based on flash, for example:
http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2009/07/30/aktuelle-stunde-kuen
digung.xml

Those pages can be accessed without problems and the starting picture of
the video is displayed. When we try to play the video we are receiving
"network error" and "file not found" within the flasharea-window after a
few seconds. There is no problem playing an audio stream from this site
or flash-videos for example from youtube.com or golem.de

Our Clients, always with flashplugin installed:
Firefox 3.5 (Win), Firefox 3.6 (Linux) and Chrome (Linux) .

In the access.log we can see an authenticated user "test" surfin on
www.wdr.de.
When starting the video it would seem that he lost his authentication
information and then ends in tcp-denied/407.
When disabling NCSA-AUTH in squid, we can play the videos without any
problems.
<snip>

It's clear the flash player is making it's own background HTTP requests
and not sending credentials. This is a flash player problem.

You have a choice of putting up with it or letting the player through
your Squid without authentication. The headers you log show a few things
like User-Agent, source website and Content-Type you could match on to
identify its requests.

Thanks Amos. But can you give me a hint how i have to configure squid for letting the flashplayer through it without authentication?

Already did. The third sentence I wrote says "The headers you log show a few things like ... you could match on".

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/acl/  see req_header ACL type.

Amos
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Please be using
  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.5


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