RE: Challenge in NTLM authenticator

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: Challenge in NTLM authenticator
>
>
> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Yes. This is one of the strongest reasons for having
> squid's internal
> > code SSP ignorant, and simply message passing to the helper.
>
> Then you also know that if making the Squid core SSP
> ignorant, then you cannot reuse the same NTLM challenge to
> more than one client as you don't know the NTLMSSP level and
> options requested..

That's why the squid-helper protocol controls whether the challenge is
reused or not.

Rob
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 18:03:38 MDT