but, why so slow then??? " For Negotiate and NTLM the credentials are supposed to be unique per connection, so each TCP connection requires separate lookup. But followup pipelined requests on a connection should not need auth helper lookups as they share the already authenticated credentials. *group* lookups are different (and cached normally), but they are not authentication. " thanks -- Sent from: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-Users-f1019091.html _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users