Proxy Authentication

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Someone help me out here…

In the location document, when you click the “propeller head” button for Proxy values there is a section at the bottom of the dialogue box where you can specify the username and password for proxy authentication.

However, even with this specified, if I open a HTML e-mail with images, e.g. Clippings then I always get a proxy authentication challenge for my Network username and password.

Therefore, what is the point of this section in the location document???

Thanks

Mike

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Subject: Proxy Authentication

I am having the same problem with quite a few of our users. I think the problem lies in that you can’t specify a domain to authenticate with.

When you enter your detaild does it actually authenticate because ours doesn’t

cheers

chris

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Subject: RE: Proxy Authentication

Yes, If I enter my normal Windows username and password then the authentication occurs and the web content is displayed in the message.

At this point there is no domain value to specify either so the location document fields should function the same.

I actually think this is a bug. The fields have been there since R5 but they didn’t work in that release either. The Notes help states the following:

User name and Password

Enter a user name and password if you are required to do so (you may need to first select the option “Proxy requires a user login”).

One thing I note is that once I have authenticated once I do not have to do so again if I open another e-mail with different web content.

Cheers

Mike

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Subject: RE: Proxy Authentication

I have found that on 6.0.3 this does work. However in the username field you need to type in the username in this format domain\username.

This is same method of network authentication string as in many ms apps.

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Subject: RE: Proxy Authentication

Another aproach is to define a default domain for basic authentication, so users only need to type login and password.

Felipe

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Subject: Proxy Authentication

Hi All,

I believe this is relevant for ND6 also but I discovered the workaround in R5.

As per other postings, Notes only passes the two fields - username and password. However it also only passes them in plain text.

We had MS Proxy 2 and now have MS ISA Server as our proxy requiring authentication. In both cases, the only way we to enable authentication via Notes is to have Basic Authentication selected on the proxy server.

Is there a way to have integrated authentication on proxy working with Notes? I’m guessing not.

Cheers,

Sean