--hD6P3ib1XCFtz2ni Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yohanes Santoso (ysantoso / jenny-gnome.dyndns.org) wrote: > A bit off topic. Since I have never worked in an enterprise: why do > they put username/passwd authorisation on a web proxy? Can't the proxy > be set as to serve only the internal network and reject connection > from outside?=20 At PACCAR, the proxy was used to track which users view which pages via the proxy, as IP address were assigned by DHCP, and you could only trace the porn viewing back to a desktop. Authenticating users allowed IT to find out who (rather, which username/password) view the porn. --=20 Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net All messages signed with fingerprint: FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 --hD6P3ib1XCFtz2ni Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9o1nFMypVHHlsnwQRAhzeAKDwT4IA18WtOD/CH1a/Jr78VL2EbQCgwe2P e0PpFhfLWQd0Od2rtszRJTc= =lOyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hD6P3ib1XCFtz2ni-- Yohanes Santoso (ysantoso / jenny-gnome.dyndns.org) wrote: > A bit off topic. Since I have never worked in an enterprise: why do > they put username/passwd authorisation on a web proxy? Can't the proxy > be set as to serve only the internal network and reject connection > from outside?=20 At PACCAR, the proxy was used to track which users view which pages via the proxy, as IP address were assigned by DHCP, and you could only trace the porn viewing back to a desktop. Authenticating users allowed IT to find out who (rather, which username/password) view the porn. --=20 Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net All messages signed with fingerprint: FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9o1nFMypVHHlsnwQRAhzeAKDwT4IA18WtOD/CH1a/Jr78VL2EbQCgwe2P e0PpFhfLWQd0Od2rtszRJTc= =lOyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----