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Our campus uses a squid proxy caching server with a basic authentication for all outbound requests coming from internal network. The whole network uses private IP range from 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255.

Most of our faculty websites and library websites are hosted on LAN. I want to access those faculty websites and other internal websites when I am outside the proxy (say when I am at my home and not in campus). I don't know whether I can use the same basic authentication from outside to access those LAN websites. Is there a way I can do that?

I don't know whether our proxy server allows it or not, but if that's possible - I want to know how (how to set up browser etc.)?

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What does your system administrator say? What services are available outside the LAN is a question for them, not here. – RobM Nov 27 '12 at 10:02
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Like @RobM said, this is definitely a question for your network administrator. If you are the network administrator you need to determine what you want to have accessible from the outside and configure your edge equipment (firewalls, proxies) accordingly, or set up a VPN infrastructure... – voretaq7♦ Nov 27 '12 at 18:22
@RobM: Sorry for my late reply, but I don't understand how this question is off-topic. I was asking whether there's any (formal) method using which we can access squid from outside. How exactly isn't that within the scope of FAQ of the serverfault? – Forbidden Overseer Dec 13 '12 at 11:59
@voretaq7: Yeah, I could have asked my network admin, but I am actually off campus, so I can't really contact him now. BTW, isn't this question professional administration/ architecture related? I am not trying to hack into my campus network - I just want to know whether we can do that using some software that I might not know about. I would have been perfectly content with those comments - if only they were instead in the answers section. – Forbidden Overseer Dec 13 '12 at 12:04
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@ForbiddenOverseer - The way the FAQ is interpreted is that questions are on topic if they're from the person administering the system being discussed, and its in a professional capacity. So if you're not the squid box's network admin, or if you're configuring this for your personal use rather than to provide a service, then yes, its off topic. – RobM Dec 13 '12 at 12:53
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closed as off topic by RobM, Scott Pack, Adrian, mdpc, voretaq7♦ Nov 27 '12 at 18:21

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