From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: [Q] w3 behind a firewall
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:30:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199912272130.QAA01250@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "07 Dec 1999 10:13:35 +0100"
Didier Verna <didier@epita.fr> writes:
> [ About proxies that use a username and password ]
>
> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) wrote:
>
> > No, it doesn't understand that format, but it should prompt you for your
> > proxy credentails when the proxy server gripes at you. Besides, putting
> > your password in a URL in the environment is ummm, bad, and stuff. :)
>
> I know :-)
>
> Actually, it does indeed prompt me for the password, but when invoked
> with w3-fetch. The problem I have is with the picons network retreival in
> Gnus. It hangs and never retreive anything. Without any former queries to
> w3, I was expecting to be asked for the proxy password by gnus (or w3)
> for the first picons retreival, but nothing happens. Any idea ?
Could you set debug-on-quit and see where it is hanging when you interrupt
the picons stuff?
-bp
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1999-12-07 9:13 ` Didier Verna
1999-12-27 21:30 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1999-12-28 14:39 ` Didier Verna
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