Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx & Proxy Autentication

[Tom Zerucha]

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Riccardo Abba wrote:
> 
> Good evening,
> 
> I'm running a lynx2-6 version of Lynx in my company
> network. We are 'http-proxed' when exiting to outer networks
> and our proxy server require a validation username/pw pair.
> Triing to access an external URL i get the following ...
> 
> Alert!: Proxy Authentication Required.  Sorry, not yet supported.
> 
> Sigh..
> Do you think that higher version of Lynx will support autentication ?

This should be possible, but you need to find someone to do it.  Right now
it just sends the normal header.  I think if you can find out what kind of
authentication your proxy uses, it can be added, either internally, or as
a second proxy.  It might be something like:

Authorization: Basic xe4dklasldhahlj

but it would help to have the revelant text from your proxy server's
manual.

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