I can't get the firewall client to do authenticated CACHED browsing.

It's the old chestnut about the firewall client not passing it's authentication onto the Web proxy service (for hhtp & ftp).

I understood, that it should be possible to get the Web proxy service to pop up a box requesting authentication. I can't get this to work with an 'allow' protocol rule that only allows members of a AD group to use http.

All I can do, is change the properties of the 'http redirector filter' so that http requests are sent to the requested web server (ie out of the firewall service) - obviously preventing any caching. This allows the protocol rule to apply, as it used the 'integrated' authentication of the web proxy client.

Am I missing something, or isn't it possible to use caching in combination with authentication rules and the web proxy client ?

Thanks in advance

If you want the Web Proxy client to authenticate even when you have anonymous access rules in place, you can force authentciation by checking the box for "ask unauthenticated clients to authenticate" checkbox in the outbound web requests listener.

HTH,
Tom

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Tom Shinder
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What I want is to be able to use the firewall client (as opposed to the web-proxy client) with authentication and making use of the caching service (ie not going directly out of the firewall service). Is this possible?

That is not possible. You must have the request go through the Web Proxy service in order for it to be cached.

Why don't you want to configure the browsers as web proxy clients? There are a lot advantages to doing so, and no disadvantages.

HTH,
Tom

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Tom Shinder
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