Re: [Q] w3 behind a firewall

Re: [Q] w3 behind a firewall

[Didier Verna]

[ 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 ?


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Re: [Q] w3 behind a firewall

[William M. Perry]

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

Re: [Q] w3 behind a firewall

[Didier Verna]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) wrote:

> Could you set debug-on-quit and see where it is hanging when you interrupt
> the picons stuff?

        Hmmm, it would be hard, because it's done asynchronously. But after
further investigation, it seems that the problem is elsewhere: my sysadmin
filters out some sites known to send ads images, and the picons site seems to
be one of them :-( It's replaced by a random local image and thus the proxy
services are not required.

        What gave me the impression that the retreival was hanging is that
Andy's progress gauge never goes away...

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