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Re: Force NTLM authentication

From: Leon Stringer <leon.stringer_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:44:39 +0000

> From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> Date: 2008/04/08 Tue AM 09:39:41 GMT
> To: the curl tool <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Subject: Re: Force NTLM authentication
>
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Leon Stringer wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get Google Earth to connect via a proxy using NTLM
> > authentication.
>
> This mailing list is for the curl tool, not for google earth...

Point taken.

> > If I run the following it attempts to connect via the proxy but the
> > credentials it seems to be using are shown as unprintable Unicode chars:
> >
> > env http_proxy=http:leons:*****@10.208.48.254:800 googleearth
> >
> > Do I need to do something specific to force it to use NTLM? Or am I missing
> > a library?
>
> The application needs to tell libcurl to enable/allow NTLM to be used for the
> proxy, and possibly google earth doesn't do that. You should contact the
> author's of this tool and ask them about it!
>

I just wondered if there were any environment variable options specific to NTLM auth. I guess I've got my answer.

Thanks for your time and sorry about the breach in etiquette.

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