Http test behind proxy
list Kevin Hanrahan
My Hobbit server sits behind a proxy server that requires authentication before it will allow access to the internet. How do I test external hosts (for http for instance) from here? Is there a way to pass credentials to the proxy server to allow access? Thanks KEvin
list Henrik Størner
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:52:54PM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
My Hobbit server sits behind a proxy server that requires authentication before it will allow access to the internet. How do I test external hosts (for http for instance) from here? Is there a way to pass credentials to the proxy server to allow access?
See the bb-hosts man-page, in the section "HTTP Testing via proxy" Henrik
list Kevin Hanrahan
Henrik,
Thank you for that info. In doing this I noticed something that may not be
considered a bug but maybe an annoyance?...you decide.
The format stated is:
If your proxy requires authentication, you can specify the username and
password inside the proxy-part of the URL, e.g.
http://fred:user-a44e509d68fd@xymon.invalid:3128/http://www.foo.com/
will authenticate to the proxy using a username of "fred" and a password of
"Wilma1", before requesting the proxy to fetch the www.foo.com homepage
But my password contains the "@" symbol (which appears to be the delimiter
between password and proxy server) and when I used it in this example:
http://kevin:p at user-763c6dc003fa@xymon.invalid:8080/http://www.foo.com/
I got a DNS error. I am guessing it thought my proxy was "ssword" or maybe
"user-763c6dc003fa@xymon.invalid which is incorrect and could no be resolved.
Is there a way around this?
In my case, I just created another user with a password that didn't contain
the "@" but this might not be possible for others.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:17 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Http test behind proxy
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:52:54PM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:My Hobbit server sits behind a proxy server that requires authentication before it will allow access to the internet. How do I test external hosts (for http for instance) from here? Is there a way to pass credentials to the proxy server to allow access?
See the bb-hosts man-page, in the section "HTTP Testing via proxy" Henrik
list Henrik Størner
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:42:51PM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
If your proxy requires authentication, you can specify the username and
password inside the proxy-part of the URL, e.g.
http://fred:user-a44e509d68fd@xymon.invalid:3128/http://www.foo.com/
will authenticate to the proxy using a username of "fred" and a password of
"Wilma1", before requesting the proxy to fetch the www.foo.com homepage
But my password contains the "@" symbol
Yuck - and you're in trouble too if it contains a ":". Right ...
How about escaping it the way you normally do with URL's ? I.e instead
of "@" you'd have "%40" (because the ascii value for "@" is hex 40),
does that seem reasonable ?
If so, then it's a simple one-line change. And it will only break the
setup for those who already use authentication and have a "%" in their
username or password ...
--- lib/url.c 2005/01/20 22:02:23 1.9
+++ lib/url.c 2005/01/28 19:28:31
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
p = strchr(netloc, '@');
if (p) {
*p = '\0';
- url->auth = strdup(netloc);
+ url->auth = strdup(urlunescape(netloc));
netloc = (p+1);
}
p = strchr(netloc, '=');
Henrik