Proxy Authentication does not authenticate

[Timothy Alexander]

Synaptic seems to handle proxys just fine, but when you enter the proxy like "http://username:password@proxy:proxyport" it takes it as a valid proxy, and throws an authentication error. (407) There is a workaround, in that you can open firefox, and authenticate with the proxy that way, then open synaptic and you will continue to be authenticated.

This is a very big problem for people that do not know how to use apt-get, but need to use ubuntu at work behind an authenticated proxy. (many corporate users)

[Angelo Lisco (angystardust-gmail)]

Hi Timothy! I'm a corporate user as you!
Please try with username:password@proxy (without http:// ) and then specify the proxy port in the "port" widget.

[Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13)]

Tried that. It works with synaptic under PCLinuxOS, but not on Dapper.

[Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13)]

Actually, that is why I reported this. It worked for a while, but it updated synaptic, or something, and it died. Breezy still works fine, but dapper won't go through.

[Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13)]

Sorry for the spam.

I should also mention that the command

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy:proxyport"

works swimmingly, so long as I use apt-get. Synaptic seems to totally reject the env variables when accessing the network.

For now, I am using apt-get only, but this is a huge issue for corporate users that are behind a proxy that takes authentication.

[Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13)]

Michael, I don't know how you want to file this, but I just removed, and installed synaptic, and now it works just fine. That was really wierd. I'll keep my eye out for this prolem t occur again, but if this is an isolated incident...

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this update. If you can't reproduce it anymore I close it for now. Pleae reopen if you can reproduce it again.

Cheers,
 michael

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[Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13)]

Seriously? Can't delete comments?

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