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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: When trying to authenticate to a proxy, I get "unknown authorization method"
From:       "Cory Pierson" <cpierson () mediaone ! net>
Date:       2001-09-01 14:38:19
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Thanks Dawit,

No, I was not one of the people who reported the bug.  I am a recent joiner
of the mail list.  I am a programmer coming in from the cold with a great
deal of excitement for and about OSS.  I do hope to be able to contribute to
OSS once I am able to come up to speed on all this neat stuff.

I don't understand why, but now it's working!  Your reply was helpful as it
caused me to believe it was a setting on my proxy server.  In hopes of
helping others and attempting to understand all this, I am providing you
with the following description of what I did....

I am using Small Business Server 4.5, with Proxy Server 2.0.  After reading
your reply, I revisited the Default Web site and Administration Web site and
my son's website properties via the Microsoft Management Control.  For each
one the Directory Security setting for Anonymous Access and Authentication
Control was Allow Anonymous Access and Windows NT Challenge Response.  I
unchecked the Windows NT Challenge Response one at a time testing from my
KDE workstation if I could access the web.  When all 3 had Windows NT
Challenge Response unchecked I could SUCCESSFULLY access the www from my KDE
workstation!  Yeah!  Next I went back and revisited each of the 3 sites in
turn, checking the Windows NT Challenge Response box and each time I was
able to connect from my KDE workstation.  Now all my settings are back to
the original state when previously I could not connect, but now I can.  I
don't understand this Microsoft stuff...  No telling what will happen when I
reboot the Small Business Server, but I am not going to do that now!

As an aside, I have an AlphaServer 1000A which I have Red Hat 7.1 running.
As soon as I become more familiar with Apache and a mail server (leaning
toward qmail), I will replace the Small Business Server with it.  Fun
project!

Again, thanks for your inspiration!

Cory


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawit Alemayehu" <adawit@kde.org>
To: <kfm-devel@kde.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 23:13
Subject: Re: When trying to authenticate to a proxy, I get "unknown
authorization method"


> On Friday 31 August 2001 17:35, Cory Pierson wrote:
> > I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 using RPMs and I am still getting this error
> > message which pertains to KDE 2.1.1.  Did I miss something?  I found the
> > following in Konqueror's FAQs and I thought it would disappear when I
> > upgraded to 2.2 but it is still here.
> >
> > from FAQs:
> >
> > When trying to authenticate to a proxy, I get "unknown authorization
> > method" (KDE 2.1.1)
> > Unfortunately a bug was introduced when the code that deals with
> > authentication was being revamped for the 2.1.1 release. The bug has now
> > been fixed in both the development as well as the current stable
branches.
> > If you compiled KDE 2.1.1 from source code through anoncvs.kde.org,
please
> > update kdelibs/kio/http to the current version of 2.1.1 using
> > cvs upd -r KDE_2_1_BRANCH
> > in that directory.
> > We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >
> > Thanks for any insight.
> >
>
> Hi Cory,
>
> Does whatever you are authenticating to work with browsers other than IE ?
We have received
> reports of some IIS servers send only non-standard authentication requests
which we ofcourse
> do not support such as NTLM IIRC.  We only support Digest and Basic
authentication schemes.
> You should only get this message if your server does not send either one
of these authentication
> schemes.
>
> BTW, the problem has long been fixed as stated in the FAQ and tested by
people who had this
> issue in the 2.1.1 tree.  Were you one of those people who reported such
bug against 2.1.1 ?  I
> cannot remember that back :(  Anyways, if you can supply a link to the
page with the problem
> or find out what authentication schemes the server in question supports it
would be easier to find out.
> I would ask you to sent be a debug output, but since you installed from
RPMS that would not work.
> Hmm... but you can use the `wget` program to connect to the site in
question see the header information
> it returns which should contain the required authentication...
>
> Regards,
> Dawit A.

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