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What is the difference between authentication and authorization?

by Vivek Gite on March 13, 2009 · 6 comments

What is the difference between authentication and authorization? Why it is important to understand difference between two?

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How to: Linux / UNIX setup Squid Proxy authentication

by Vivek Gite on October 8, 2007 · 3 comments

Q. I’m using Squid Cache Version 2.6.STABLE. It is configured perfectly and I’d like to know how do I allow squid to only authenticated users? A. Squid can authenticate users if squid is configured to use proxy_auth ACLs. Browsers send the user’s authentication credentials in the Authorization request header. If Squid gets a request and [...]

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