On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Leon Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Absolutely. A user shouldn't have to know the difference between proxy > types, only that an NTLM (or other authentication system) proxy will require > credentials but a non-authenticating (i.e. "Simple") won't. > > So it's not reducing functionality, it's reducing the cognitive burden of > the user by only asking them to make decisions that are relevant.
Just to chip in here, without any knowledge of the code, the dialogue box in question or anything else pertinent except some real world experience... There is a use case of a (what I'd call) "simple" proxy - i.e. a host name and a port over which full-blown HTTP requests are sent - requiring authentication. I've certainly worked at organisations where the normal "HTTP proxy" specification needed to be authenticated with credentials which were sent as HTTP-Basic along with every request to the proxy. A user should know if there's is this type of proxy, so I'd argue that whatever "simple proxy" is supposed to do, a user should be able to enter credentials - and that they should be sent to the proxy server as HTTP-Basic in that circumstance. Hope that helps, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/
