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:Wilma1 at webproxy.sample.com: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 ssword@webproxy.sample.com:8080/http://www.foo.com/

I got a DNS error. I am guessing it thought my proxy was "ssword" or maybe "ssword at webproxy.sample.com 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:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:17 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Http test behind proxy Importance: Low

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

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