* Spicerun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011101 18:12]: > Hello, > > I haven't read a solution to my problem in all of the searching I've > done for articles, so I'll try my question here. > > I have Mozilla-0.9.5 running on both a Windows 98 and a Linux Box. > At work we are on a NAT/Netbui network and are behind a Windows NT > firewall. What is worse is that they have decided that there will be > no DNS server on this network, just a WINS server. To browse, they > have to set up a proxy server with a WinNT box. I have tried to match > the Mozilla-0.9.5 proxy settings to the Internet Exploder settings on > the proxy, but when I try to use Mozilla, I get an 'HTTP Error 407, > 407 Proxy Authentication Required, You must authenticate with a proxy > server before this request can be service. Please log on to your proxy > server, and then try again.". Obviously Internet Exploder does this > automatically. > > How can I set up Mozilla to automatically authenticate itself to the > proxy?
This has been a problem for me when attempting to use mozilla or the netscape versions while at work. There, I'm behind an MS Proxy v2 machine, that does 'NTLM' authentication. Mozilla/netscape didn't support it for a long time. Then it did. Now it doesn't. I really don't know what happened... I've subscribed to various mozilla lists for a long time and never saw any reports of problems with it so why it was removed, I don't know. By coincidence, the latest issue of Computerworld (Oct 29, 2001) has a mention of this in the 'Security Manager's Journal'. He says: "...and forced everyone to access the Internet through the proxy server. Those who were using Netscape Navigator [no version # mentioned] on Unix were forced to try to get it to work with the MS Proxy and Windows NT challenge/response authentication we use. (If anyone has any tips for this rather painful process, let me know)." I'm off to search bugzilla for related items... Hall
