Bug#229331: apt: proxy support should include NTLM authentication
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.20
Severity: normal
For those of us unfortunate enough to live behind a proxy, apt provides the
mechanism for accessing sources using that proxy with the apt.conf setting:
ACQUIRE::http::Proxy "http://username:passwd@proxy.institution.edu:8080";;
However, for those of us even more unfortunate to live behind a proxy which
only uses the NTLM authentication mechanism, this proxy setting does not
currently work.
NTLM authentication has now made it into the recently released mozilla v1.6,
and it appears to work just fine.
Now that the precedent is set (and the required code is available), it would
be good if apt could likewise support access through these kinds of NTLM
proxies.
Drew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux strider 2.6.0-test9 #1 Wed Jan 14 23:29:19 CST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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