[Twisted-web] Proxy Authentication with a Password Protected Site

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Mon Sep 22 09:44:48 EDT 2008


On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:38:57 -0400, Robert Hancock <hancock.robert at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> If I run this against a password protected HTTP(S) site from a host
>>> that has direct access to the Internet it works fine.  I now have to
>>> move it behind a proxy that requires authentication.  The Twisted
>>> documentation did not make it clear (to me) how to add proxy
>>> authentication and I cannot find an example on the Internet.
>>>
>>> I've tried adding an additional Proxy-Authentication header to the
>>> call, but that doesn't help  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> "Didn't help" how? What didn't work?
>>
>> What kind of proxy is it?
>>
>
>Didn't help in that I receive an HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication required.
>
>It is a proxy that requires Basic HTTP authentication.
>

Maybe you meant to add the "Proxy-Authenticate" header instead of the
"Proxy-Authentication" header?

Twisted Web provides no particular support for authenticating with proxies,
but it doesn't do anything that would prevent you from handling this in your
code, either.

Jean-Paul



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