On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Ajay Doshi wrote:

> I am trying to use curl through a proxy server. The proxy server requires a
> username and password. This is the command I am using:
>
> curl -U myusername:mypassword -x webproxy:8080 http://www.google.com/
>
> However, I am getting this error:
>
> The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy.

This indicates that your proxy rejects this request for some reason.

> Proxy server is unable to locate the server: www.netscape.com.

When you try to access google?

> Does anyone know why this is happening and/or what I can do to fix it?

Is your proxy really a HTTP proxy? Does it work properly when you use it with
your various browsers?

When it fails, what headers does it return?

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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