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bug #2878: No proxy authentication

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Submitted on:  Thu 20 Mar 2003 02:14:10 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Invalid
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Open/Closed: Closed

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Thu 20 Mar 2003 09:14:18 AM UTC, comment #1:

Yeah, by default Straw uses the Gnome 2 settings. The name of the proxy and user name and password can be set via the Desktop preferences -> Network proxy dialog. Or by running gnome-network-preferences from the command line.

However, if Straw doesn't find those settings - that is, the relevant GConf directories, system/proxy and system/http_proxy don't exist - or if the GConf module isn't installed, it'll try reading the http_proxy environment variable. It should work if you specify it as http://username:password@proxy.domain.com/ .

This is the way it's designed to work; if you have more trouble, please open a new bug.

Juri Pakaste <juri>
Project Administrator
Thu 20 Mar 2003 02:14:10 AM UTC, original submission:

I normally use my university library's proxy when browsing in galeon, and it requires authentication. Straw apparently uses Gnome to determine the proxy, but since it doesn't let me enter a username or password, it can't find any of the feeds.

"An exception occured while reading this feed:
Polling feed resulted in abnormal status 'Proxy authorization required

' (code 407)"

shows up below the entry window.

I'm not using gnome... I suppose in the mean time I have to open up gnome network properties? I had set up the proxy originally with the gtk1.2 galeon, so it had it's own decentralized proxy system. I guess it migrated when I upgraded. I don't remember setting things up in gnome 2, but that's because I usually use KDE.

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