Hi Dirk

I fell over your bug report at Debian, that seems to indicate a problem in
libcurl:

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I was trying to extend the simple.c example to work from behind a firewall.
Reading the curl_easy_setopt(3) manual page suggest that CURLOPT_PROXY and
CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD should enable this.

They don't, or at least not until one also adds CURLOPT_USERPWD -- which
runs counter to the two paragraphs in the above mentioned manual page.
Nothing in the text about CURLOPT_USERPWD suggest that it is also needed for
a proxy.

In fact, as there is a chance that the behaviour is wrong inside the
library, it would be best if the bug report could be forwarded.
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Can you provide us with more details on this? Can you show us the VERBOSE
output from a protocol dump when you connect to/use the proxy without the
CURLOPT_USERPWD set and one test with it set?

Also, try upgrading to libcurl 7.9 as that is better.

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