RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

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RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by mzu2006 » Tue May 26, 2009 10:31 pm

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Re: RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by wjstarck » Wed May 27, 2009 12:09 pm

That's more of an enterprise level feature. You could put in a feature request.

In the meantime, have you considered controlling access to your proxy using Active Directory authentication?

http://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/Configu ... eDirectory
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Re: RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by jordansparks » Wed May 27, 2009 2:04 pm

I'm looking in the C# framework to see if there are appropriate classes included for this purpose. If there are, then it's a simple matter for us to let users specify those values. When you push the check for updates button, it makes an xml web service request to our server. I suppose this is different than an http request for a website which you could simply add to your filtering rules. So I'm looking at the functions available, and there seems to be a property for the service request called "Proxy". It's described as "gets or sets proxy information for making an XML Web service request through a firewall." When constructing a proxy, we are required to specify an address. The example they give is "http://proxyserver:80". In addition to the address, we can specify Credentials, described as "the credentials to submit to the proxy server for authentication." The available fields for Credentials are userName, password, and domain(optional). The proxy object also has a field called BypassOnLocal which can be set to true or false. It is described as "true to bypass the proxy for local addresses; otherwise, false". The default seems to be false, and I'm not really sure what that means.

The reason I'm providing all this detail is because you are obviously more familiar with your proxy situation. It seems to me that if we allowed an address, userName, and password, that it should work. Do you agree? We will have no way to test it.
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Post by mzu2006 » Thu May 28, 2009 5:10 am

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Re: RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by wjstarck » Thu May 28, 2009 5:44 am

Mikhail-

Just curious - do you have a subscription to Microsoft Action Pack?
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Re: RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by jordansparks » Fri May 29, 2009 6:58 am

Yes, that's it. I just added it for version 6.7.
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Post by mzu2006 » Sun May 31, 2009 3:11 am

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Re: RFC 2617 proxy authorization. Bypass, circumvent, smth else?

Post by wjstarck » Sun May 31, 2009 5:05 pm

We have a large office with many computerized workplaces
in your post made it sound as if you were in-house IT for a large practice...so no, it'd wouldn't help...
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