Re: Proxy authentication in libwww

At 14:20 7/7/99 -0300, Lopez, Francisco Javier wrote:
>Hi
>	I'm using libwww for an application and can't get it work with a
>proxy (works fine with a direct connection)
>
>The problem is that the proxy needs a basic authentication scheme
>(user/password) and libwww isn't asking it to the user. Then the
>HTEventList_loop returrns.
>
>I've configured the environment variable and while debugging the code I
>see that libwww recognize that a proxy should be used, but never ask the
>user for the user/password.
>
>Do you have any idea of where should I look to get more information
>about what is going on ?

Have you registered some handlers for talking to the user, see [1] for
details.

Have you tried the command line tool [2] (part of libwww) - it should do
the right thing.

Henrik

[1] http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTAlert.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/ComLine/
--
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk

Received on Wednesday, 7 July 1999 13:59:03 UTC