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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:15:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Lane Holcombe" <lane@joeandlane.com>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD config for Proxy Authentication
Message-ID:  <200202130015.g1D0Fbt00723@joeandlane.com>

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Good suggestion :)

But It doesn't change the message :(

The fact that changing the environment variables at all elicits a 
change in the response suggests that this is the right track. 


> 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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