- From: A Bagi <ahmed.bagi@virgin.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:04:46 +0100
- To: <theo@sndrsn.co.uk>, "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>
- Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
http://www.topology.org/soft/linux.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theo Sanderson" <sndrsn@gmail.com> To: "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org> Cc: <www-talk@w3.org> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:53 PM Subject: 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 >> >> > >
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