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Re: curl newbie - problems accessing web addresses through Proxy

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:23:01 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 Niall_Furlong_at_dell.com wrote:

> When trying to connect to any external websites, I need to use a proxy. I
> have included the proxy details in the command below. I subsequently add
> in my password.

> The following is the reponse I get. I was unable to find a reason for the
> "parameter is incorrect" error on the curl.haxx.se website and so that's
> why Ive found myself writing this mail. I am running this command off a
> command prompt on a WIN2k system.

That reply might come from the proxy itself. Then it might identify a problem
with the request. Possibly you're not using the correct authentication method
or a bad user name or something.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-10-28