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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:19:53 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Lane Holcombe" <lane@joeandlane.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD config for Proxy Authentication
Message-ID:  <02021218195302.00798@proxy.pt.com>
In-Reply-To: <200202122326.g1CNQB200662@joeandlane.com>
References:  <200202122326.g1CNQB200662@joeandlane.com>

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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:26, Lane Holcombe wrote:
> If I use:
> setenv HTTP_PROXY_AUTH "*:*:<my user id>:<my proxy password>"
> then I get "Authentication Required".
>
> I use the asterisk for "realm" because the proxy server realm is
> called "proxy server" and the space seems to be problematic ... this is
> because I can't "setenv" with the space unless I quote the whole
> string.  When I do that I also get "Internal Server Error."

Try escaping the space with a backslash ...

setenv HTTP_PROXY_AUTH "*:proxy\ server:<my user id>:<my proxy password>"

This usually works in places where quotes don't.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology technical services
http://www.potentialtech.com

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