- From: Corné Beerse <cbeerse@lycos.nl>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:23:36 +0100
- To: Keith Hopper <kh@waikato.ac.nz>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Keith Hopper wrote: > > Greetings, > I am sure that I am not the only Amaya user who works behind a secure > proxy server. I seem to remember that in a much earlier version Amaya would > give me a proxy login prompt and then serve files. > > I haven't actually tried this for a long time, but today using 8.3 > under linux there is merely the flicker of a 'Cannot load' message even > though I have configured the proxy as required. > > Has anyone any idea what may be going wrong? > > Keith > > PS As a matter of interest could Amaya not automatically pick up the > proxy settings from something like /etc/wgetrc ?? > Following the definition of url-s or uri-s, you should be able to put the account info in there: http://username@proxyserver:port/ (this hould ask for a password if needed) http://usernname:password@proxyserver:port/ (sends password raw...) I expect amaya to accept urls in this form and pass them on as needed. Basic security tells me that the password is send raw over the network hence a potential seciruty risc. However, since it is only from the machine to the proxy server and not over a public network (that is only at the other side of the proxy server). And in most (larger) local networks are switched and somehow controlled, I considder it as a not so potential risc. CBee
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