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Re: lynx-dev Trouble With Proxy-Server


From: Wayne Buttles
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Trouble With Proxy-Server
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:30:21 -0500 (EST)

Did you try just putting quotes around the argument?

lynx.exe "-pauth=lastname-firstname:mypassword"

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> In the first place, I want to send a big "thanks a lot"  to Doug Kaufman and 
> to 
> Philip Webb for their very fast replys. Unfortunately, I could not solve my 
> problem.
> 
> This was the problem:
> 
> > The Web connection is thru a proxy-server. So, I edited lynx.cfg, 
> > added the proxy server address to the corresponding protocols.
> > I'm under Windows95 there, using the Lynx 2.8.1 Win32 binaries from l.b.o.
> > my username at the Proxy Server has the form "lastname-firstname",
> > so i call lynx this way:  lynx.exe -pauth=lastname-firstname:mypassword ,
> > and it doesn't work, because the username has an "-" in it,
> > lynx assumes "-firstname" is a switch & the complete username isn't
> received.
> > I can't change the username: the administrator won't change my username
> > to anything withouth "-", because that's the standard in the company.
>  
> Philip wrote:
> 
> >someone else may have more technical suggestions,
> >but there might be a way of escaping the  - :
> >have a look in Al Gilman's FAQs in the Main Help Page;
> 
> I got the FAQ. I guess you refer to the "%hexcode" solution, as Doug did. It 
> doesn't work.
> If you meant some other solution, I didn't find it in the FAQ, could you be 
> more specific?
> 
> >or could you perhaps try  -pauth=`lastname-firstname' .
> 
> I tried the following strings without success:
> 
> -pauth=`lastname-firstname:mypass'
> -pauth='lastname-firstname:mypass`
> -pauth=`lastname-firstname:mypass`
> -pauth='lastname-firstname:mypass'
> -pauth=lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass
> -pauth=`lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass'
> -pauth='lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass`
> -pauth=`lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass`
> -pauth='lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass'
> -pauth="lastname%2Dfirstname:mypass"
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Again, thanks a lot to all of you for your concern.
> 
> Juan Gutmann 
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
> 
> 
> 

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