Re: Connecting through firewall

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Toth Attila wrote:
> > I work at EDS. Here, we have an https firewall that requires a
> > login/password in order to open a connection to the internet. I want to
> > set up a Debian box on our intranet that will be able to use console apps
> > to access the internet (such as lynx, apt-get, lftp, etc...). Is there
> For lynx  it might be helpful to set the https-proxy address and port in
> /etc/lynx.conf. I don't know if it works, because I never tried this
> option. I also don't know how lynx hadles login/password related to the
> https server, but from version 2.2 a workaround was said to be included.
> 

There's the lynx-ssl package in non-US for https support. I think it
handles logins okay (I've used it against restricted .htaccess areas and
it worked).

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