Re: Can Dillo work through a firewall

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:06:08PM -0500, Potter, G M (Greg) wrote:
> Has anyone got dillo to work through a firewall
> that requires a login and password? I have set
> the proxy variable, but my firewall requires a
> login and password. Is there a file like .wgetrc
> where you can specify a proxy_user and proxy_password?
> I would like to be able to use dillo, but until I
> get around the firewall issue I guess I'm just
> stuck.

Hmm, I don't see anything in the proxy code of dillo to handle this.
Does it work to put a username:password directly into the proxy url?

http://yourlogin:yourpassword@proxyhost.net/

(not knowing anything about how authenticated proxies work)

Another trick would be to set up a pass-through squid cache on the
ipaq, and give it the authentication info. There's no ipkg for squid,
however. You could try the arm deb, though. Most of the squid docs talk
about how to use it as an authentication _server_, but it can talk to
upstream proxies with a hard-coded authentication, something like this,
in squid.conf:

# In addition you'll have to replace 'yourlogin' and 'yourpassword'
# with your own account informations.

cache_peer 192.168.0.100 parent 8080 7 no-query no-digest no-netdb-exchange default login=yourlogin:yourpassword

If you do this, there's lots of docs and textual stuff in the squid deb you'll
want to delete.

Ross
Received on Wed Sep 04 22:12:39 2002