Here is my study case:
browser --- apache proxy --- ISA server --- internet
The ISA server requires an
authentication.
The issue is to allow HTTPS through the two proxies.
A configuration that works with HTTP is something like this:
(yes, I don't want to use ProxyPass but ProxyRequests)
<virtualhost *:8080>
...
SetEnv auth-proxy-chain on
...
ProxyRequests On
ProxyRemote * http://isaproxy:80
...
<proxy *>
AuthName "ISA server auth"
AuthType Basic
[here a module to authenticate]
require valid-user
Allow from all
</proxy>
...
</virtualhost>
The user can authenticate on the apache proxy then the
authentication chain is sent to the ISA server that allows the HTTP trafic.
But, while the browser switchs to HTTPS, the ISA server "speaks" NTLM and breaks the
authentication on the apache proxy.
If I try to use the SSPI module (ntlm) with something like this:
blablabla
<proxy *>
AuthName "ISA server auth"
AuthType ntlm
[ SSPI stuff ]
Require valid-user
Allow from all
</proxy>
The apache server reject the
authentication (or the ISA server I don't really know).
I use wireshark to look at the nominal process while using directly the ISA server as proxy. The first auth-chain is a BASIC type then it switchs to NTLM (and the challenge continues with NTLM).
How should I configure apache that it transfers the NTLM
authentication to the ISA proxy without checking it(*)? Or to rewrite headers to force BASIC authentication?
(*) It seems not to be as easy as it seems...
