Re: Getting a page through an authenticated proxy

Thank you for the reply but I need to know the actual command
structure if possible, in order to do further things later.  I have
lynx and use it fairly regularly, I guess what I'm asking is 'how does
lynx do it'


On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:58:42 -0400, Al Gilman <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> At 5:09 PM +0100 9/11/04, Theo Sanderson wrote:
> >OK, I have done my best to work out how to do this but can't, sorry to
> >bother you guys with a very simple question.
> >
> >I want to connect to a proxy with my username and password and
> >retrieve a page from the world wide web.
> >
> >E.g. Login to proxyserver: 172.21.1.5
> >Username:joeblow42
> >Password:chick3n
> >Page:http://www.google.com/
> >
> >What command should I use to do this once I have telnetted to the proxy?
> 
> Any browser available to your login on the 172.21.1.5 host that will work
> well with your telnet session as its terminal.
> 
> Try asking "which lynx" and "which links" for text browsers [1] available on
> the host.
> 
> Al
> 
> [1] http://www.google.com/search?q=text+browser
> 
>

Received on Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:53:15 UTC