diff --git a/docs/src/content/overview-features.md b/docs/src/content/overview-features.md index a8b65bd1e..dfafeb770 100644 --- a/docs/src/content/overview-features.md +++ b/docs/src/content/overview-features.md @@ -272,10 +272,13 @@ Remove existing `Host` headers from all requests: Asks the user for authentication before they are permitted to use the proxy. Authentication headers are stripped from the flows, so they are not passed to -upstream servers. For now, only HTTP Basic authentication is supported. The -proxy auth options are not compatible with the transparent, socks or reverse -proxy mode. +upstream servers. For now, only HTTP Basic Authentication is supported. +Proxy Authentication does not work well in transparent proxy mode by design +because the client is not aware that it is talking to a proxy. +Mitmproxy will re-request credentials for every individual domain. +SOCKS proxy authentication is currently unimplemented +([#738](https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/738)). ## Server-side replay