[gentoo-user] Lightweight & Simple Proxy that supports upstream authentication

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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Hello,

I'm looking for a simple HTTP+FTP proxy that supports upstream
authentication.

The reason is that we (that is, my employer) have a server that requires
Internet access for its setup, but for some reason* my employer does not
want to give the contractors a login for the corporate proxy.

I'm planning of setting up a simple proxy to authenticate against the
corporate proxy using one of my credentials, and have the contractor use
this simple proxy instead of the corporate one.

I think Squid can do that... but is there a simpler solution? I truly don't
need caching, inter-proxy coordination, or other exotic stuff. Just a way
to allow other people to authenticate against the corporate proxy using my
credentials, but without giving my credentials away.

(Of course the simple proxy will be installed on a totally separate system,
one under my full control and nobody else's)

Rgds,
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