Hi,

I'm trying to use links text web browser to access the Internet but need
to authenticate myself on a proxy.

I'd like to use a text browser like links. It has an option for setting
up a proxy host and port, but I see nothing about authentication.

In the changelog, there's something about proxy authentication, but
manuals are old and don't seem to refer it.

Is it possible to authenticate on a proxy server? how?



Luis

Luis P. Mendes wrote:

> I'd like to use a text browser like links. It has an option for setting
> up a proxy host and port, but I see nothing about authentication.

You can try elinks (a text browser derived from links) or w3m, both
support HTTP proxy authentication. Here in my system (Debian Etch),
/usr/bin/links is a symbolic link to elinks.

>
> Is it possible to authenticate on a proxy server? how?

If you are using elinks you can add the following to your
~/.elinks/elinks.conf:

set protocol.http.proxy.host = "foo.bar.com:8080"
set protocol.http.proxy.user = "johndoe"
set protocol.http.proxy.passwd = "123456"

Then this settings will be used transparently when you start elinks
again (just create the file if it doesn't exist). Elinks also
supports https and ftp proxy.

With w3m you can set the environment variable HTTP_PROXY to your
proxy's address (in the format host:port) and then just use the
option -pauth user:pass when invoking w3m:

$ export HTTP_PROXY=foo.bar.com:8080
$ w3m -pauth johndoe:123456 www.linux.com

The variable HTTP_PROXY is also used by elinks if you don't provide
a value to protocol.http.proxy.host.

Please refer to elinks.conf(5), w3m(1) for more information.

--
Gustavo

Hello Gustavo,

Em Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:45:41 -0300, Gustavo Rondina escreveu:

> Luis P. Mendes wrote:
>
>> I'd like to use a text browser like links. It has an option for setting
>> up a proxy host and port, but I see nothing about authentication.
>
> You can try elinks (a text browser derived from links) or w3m, both
> support HTTP proxy authentication. Here in my system (Debian Etch),
> /usr/bin/links is a symbolic link to elinks.
I didn't know about elinks, just links and lynx. It seem to be a great
text browser :-)

>
>> Is it possible to authenticate on a proxy server? how?
>
> If you are using elinks you can add the following to your
> ~/.elinks/elinks.conf:
>
> set protocol.http.proxy.host = "foo.bar.com:8080" set
> protocol.http.proxy.user = "johndoe" set protocol.http.proxy.passwd =
> "123456"
This is what I really needed.

>
> Then this settings will be used transparently when you start elinks again
> (just create the file if it doesn't exist). Elinks also supports https
> and ftp proxy.
I've looked at w3m but elinks seems to be far more featureful than w3m.
Is there any advantage you see in using w3m?

>
> With w3m you can set the environment variable HTTP_PROXY to your proxy's
> address (in the format host:port) and then just use the option -pauth
> user:pass when invoking w3m:
>
> $ export HTTP_PROXY=foo.bar.com:8080
> $ w3m -pauth johndoe:123456 www.linux.com
>
> The variable HTTP_PROXY is also used by elinks if you don't provide a
> value to protocol.http.proxy.host.
>
> Please refer to elinks.conf(5), w3m(1) for more information.
I would like to thank you for your precious help.

Best regards,

Luis