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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: very important kssl patch
From:       George Staikos <staikos () nitro ! 0wned ! org>
Date:       2000-10-08 21:23:56
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jason Haar wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:58:01AM -0400, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > I agree with this wholeheartdly.  It is the cleanest way to go about fixing 
> > this issue and definitely needs to be implemented for the later 2.x releases. 
> > However, there are few (well more than few probably) who are using konqy 
> > behind firewalls with proxy servers that requires authentication and they 
> > will be out of luck :((  So we are dammed if we do and dammed if we don't.  
> > That is why I need to fix it :((  Though my fix will also be a hack, it is 
> > not as bad as you think...
> 
> If it can't be fixed fully, how about telling people a workaround? They can
> install Squid on their own workstation, and it can be configured to talk to
> upstream proxy servers - and it does support authenticated proxy connections
> :-)
> 
> [i.e. you talk to it as a  unauth proxy, and it forwards your requests as
> auth'ed]

   That could work I guess.  I won't be going through the steps to verify
this though :)  My hacking time is diminishing as it is...

Still if anyone wants to do this, feel free...

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