[Libproxydetect-devel] [Fwd: Re: libproxydetect]

[Augustus S. <aug...@ve...>]

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Subject: Re: libproxydetect
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:44:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Daniel Stenberg <da...@ha...>
To: Augustus Saunders <aug...@ve...>



On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Augustus Saunders wrote:

> > o I missed user+password for the proxy authentication?

> For neither IE or Mozilla stores your username:passwd for proxy auth.

Aha.

> I'll add functions to the API for that when we add a source that actually
> has the info.

Sounds like a plan.

> > o There are Windows-proxies that require NTLM-authentication, so isn't is
> >   possible to extract what kind of athentication the proxy wants on
> >   windows? There's also the Digest kind (hard ever used but defined in
> >   standards).

> Hmm, I don't know what NTLM authentication is.  Can you explain?

HTTP authentication can be made differently. The most classic and the
original only athentication protocol is the one called "Basic". It just
passes along the name and password in the HTTP request. Then the HTTP spec
included the "Digest" method which is little used today, but is a
challange-response kind of protocol. The good people at Microsoft stroke back
and added "NTLM" to the family of metods, which is a third way to
athenticate. The protocol on how that works is not in any open standard.

> Ok, Thanks for the feedback.  Hopefully, over the next couple of weeks, I
> can push this into a useable state for IE and Netscape on Windows.

Cool. You plan on using the libproxydetect-devel mailing list for dev talk
like this?

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