Re: WGET not authorizing?

Oops,

After all it turned out not to be a problem with Squid, but with Apache
which is running on the same machine and listening on port 8080 to serve
the proxy.pac.
I forgot to turn of the proxy mode of the Apache server, which I used
for testing purposes.

Richard.

Richard van Denzel wrote:

> The question is:
>
> when using the following sequence:
>
> export http_proxy=ia-br:8080
> wget -r <some url>
>
> I'm able to bypass my authentication rules in squid (2.3S2), e.g. I'm
> not required to authenticate myself.
> When using the same sequence for my (old) NS 3.5 proxy server I'm
> required to authenticate myself.
>
> Squid is running on AIX 4.3.2, NS Proxy is running on AIX 4.2.1 (for
> about another week, then will be replaced by squid).
> Then command sequence is issued from a RH6.0 machine. But I'm also (or
> at least some of my co-workers are) to do the same trick by using IE5.
>
> Richard.
>
> Martin Brooks wrote:
>
>> Richard van Denzel wrote:
>> >
>> > Then why am I required to authorize when using my (old) NS 3.5
>> proxy-server?
>>
>> Perhaps I've misunderstood the question here. Rephrase it for me.
>>
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