On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:11:56AM -0400, Roth, Kevin P. wrote:
> Based on a quick perusal of their web site, WebSense doesn't look like it normally locks you out based on which proxy server you use. It simply looks at *who* you are, what web site you're requesting, and what time it is, and allows or denies based on that.
>
> It does, however, appear that it can be configured to use NTLM authentication to see who you are, and curl doesn't support this. Have you tried proxying a request through your "front-line" proxy server? Use the "-i" flag for curl to see the headers coming back. I wonder if one of them doesn't look like:
>
> WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
> or
> Proxy-Authenticate: NTLM
>
> If so, you'll no longer need to write an APC parser. Instead you'll be writing an NTLM authentication engine ;-)
>
Hmm..

I doubt that this is the case - would an NTLM authentication engine be built
into Netscape 4.08 on solaris (which works fine with the APC)? Sounds pretty
far fetched to me.. I'll give it a check though.

Ed

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