Re: Setting Up Proxy Server Authentication

Wayne, does this work for the commerical licensing "name user" callback?
We have this very problem at work too; we have to supply username and
password for the HTTP proxy server in order to get out - without
those BK would be a no go for us - and we're currently shopping
SCM tools.  ;-)

BK is on the very, very short list.

Wayne Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Pankaj DHINGRA <[email protected]>
> > We have installed Bitkeeper on a Windows 2000 that is behind a 
> >  firewall requiring user name and passwd to be entered when accessing 
> >  http. We configured the environment to pick up the proxy server:
> > 
> >    set http_proxy=<proxy address>
> > 
> >  and then run the commands  at this step
> > 
> >  	We were expecting request for a username/passwd as the proxy server 
> >  will not allow access without such auditing. Please explain what is 
> >  happening here and how we might configure bitkeeper to allow entry of 
> >  proxy username/passwd.
> 
> I would need some more information about your firewall.
> 
> If it using the standard basic authentication you can set http_proxy
> like:
>  http_proxy=http://[<user>:<pass>@]<host>:<port>/
> 
> as described in 'bk help url'.
> 
> 
> However there are several "microsoft-only" firewalls that don't use
> the standards.  We don't support all of those.

-- 
Shawn.
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