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- From: krilar.augss@mn.medstroms.se (Krister Larsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Proxys?
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:01:24 GMT
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- >> Hi!
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- >> Got a question.....
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- >> I have an account through my work and it's going via a firewall....
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- >> How do I make AMosaic to do that? I have set the http_proxy env but it
- >> do not seem to help..... Any suggestions that could help me is fine...
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- >With AMosaic, if you firewall is supposed to prompt you for username and
- >password, then you should see the prompts... however, anytime you need to
- >go out to the firewall again, AMosaic can't remember the firewall proxy
- >username/password pair and you're basically stuck. I spoke to one of
- >AMosaic's authors who says that it is a bug and that there is no work
- >around. IBrowse cannot (yet) prompt for username and password, so
- >currently, that's not a solution. That is, if user authentication is
- >required by your firewall. If memory serves, to at least get AMosaic to
- >get out to the firewall one time, I used: setenv HTTP_PROXY
- >http://myfirewall.com/ and I placed it in Amitcp's startnet file (not that
- >that is such a great place for it, but it worked. I've used it for ALYNX
- >which works well.
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- I do not need a username and password..... I have found the problem....
- My IP was not set up in the firewall.... ;)
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- Now it's working perfectly....
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- Now I need a FTP client and a IRC client that support proxys.... If anyone
- know if there exists any of this I would be very happy...
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- >Good Luck!
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- Thanks!
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- Greetings / Krister.
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