Re: wget, squid and auth option

Geee... ok, ok... next time RTFM. I always forget about reading the
docs and go trying to make things work.... normal engineer procedure...
:-)
Thanks!

Juan

jleon@continental.fin.ec Area Administracion Sistemas
                                Sistemas y Proyectos
                                Banco Continental S.A.

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Pedro wrote:
>
> > Or you can use a valid userid on wgetrc. Look this parameters on
> > wgetrc:
> >
> > http_proxy = http://proxy-server:port/
> > ftp_proxy = http://proxy-server:port/
> > proxy_user =
> > proxy_passwd =
>
> Next time I'll remember to read the info page as well, and not rely on a
> man page on a piece of GNU software.. ;-)
>
> These are available using command line arguments as well as wgetrc
> commands.
>
> `--proxy-user=USER'
> `--proxy-passwd=PASSWORD'
> Specify the username USER and password PASSWORD for authentication
> on a PROXY server. Wget will encode them using the `basic'
> authentication scheme.
>
>
> But I did learn how to encode basic authorization using perl, which I
> needed in my small testsuite anyway.
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordström
> Sparetime Squid Hacker
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jul 17 1998 - 08:27:56 MDT