Re: [Evolution] Basic proxy-auth for Summary items

[Charles Bueche <charles bueche ch>]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll be back at that workplace on
Wednesday, I'll try them and report back.

Best regards,
Charles

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:23, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:14, Charles Bueche wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup my summary to work behind a proxy that wants
> > BASIC-AUTH. I have tried the method listed in Ximian supprot base "How
> > can I make the Evolution Summary work with my proxy server?" but
> > evolution always try to use NTLM auth, and my proxy wants BASIC.
> >
> > How do I configure the auth-type to BASIC, using gconftool-2 ???
>
> Blah. I think libsoup is buggy, and if the proxy offers NTLM, soup tries
> to do NTLM auth to the destination server rather than the proxy.
>
> There's no clean workaround, but you might be able to fake soup out by
> changing your username from "charles" (or whatever) to
> "charles;AUTH=Basic". But that would break proxy usage outside of
> evolution.
>
> You could also try creating a file ".souprc" in your homedir and adding:
>
>       proxy-uri: http://username;AUTH=Basic:password hostname:port/
>
> but I think that will only work if you don't have a proxy configured in
> the control center, because otherwise that information would override
> the souprc info.
>
> -- Dan
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