Re: [squid-users] logging on to a website/timeout

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On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 02:13, larry.walker@st-bedes.surrey.sch.uk wrote:
> It has been suggested that our problem is related to 'sticky=20
> sessions' by which we understand that the initial communication=20
> is being established between Squid and destination site and=20
> then the destination site is trying to continue with the local=20
> PC which being differently identified somehow prevents the link=20
> and it times out.
>=20
> (or it could be he other way round - first connection with=20
> local PC and then with Squid)
> Further to our ongoing problem above, I offer the following information w=
hich is a summary of a call we had with our ISP:
>=20
>=20
> "Either way the destination site is confused over who it is=20
> dealing with.

A strong indication that the destination site is using either per IP
session of some sort, or NTLM authentication, both of which are
fundamentally broken to use on the internet.

Rob
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