broken authenticated proxy support

[David Bishop]

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On Monday 08 April 2002 12:02 am, Dawit A. wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > Turn on authenticated proxy support for https
> > Go to any https-enabled site, this will work fine (just verifying)
> > Go to http://members.digitalblasphemy.com/
> > Click on "login", use any random username/password
> > Instead of telling you "bad username/pass", it will say:
> > "
> > An error occured while loading
> > https://secure.digitalblasphemy.com/restricted/login.shtml:
> > Could not connect to host Proxy extproxy at port 8080
> > "
> > (where extproxy is my https proxy).  This occures on any site that asks
> > for a u/p.  Obviously, this is bad :-)  Unfortunetly, I don't think
> > getting an ethereal log will help much, cuz it's all https :-P
>
> No problem.  Indeed I can duplicate this and have already fixed it.  I will
> backport it to the KDE_3_0_BRANCH so that it will be there for the 3.0.1
> release. Let me know if you want just patch and I will send it to you.

Is this in HEAD?  I've updated/recompiled kdelibs several times since this 
email, and it still doesn't work for me.  I also updated kdebase..

> Thanks much yet again :)  Without your deligence report we would not have
> found so many proxy related probems.  Things should be better in the
> future, however, since I am going to setup a web-server for testing and
> test such things throughly before release.

Sweet :-)

> Sorry about the inconvenience...

No problems.  If I really need to, I tunnel out of work through an ssh+squid 
setup.  Klunky, and not fast, but it works :-)

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D.A.Bishop
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