[EMBOSS] Negotiating a proxy server

[Ran Rubinstein]

Pierre,

It's possible to circumvent the proxy password problem by installing a local
squid proxy on your machine (or any other machine) and having it access the
password protected proxy as a parent proxy (squid supports password
authentication).
In your emboss.default you then define the proxy as localhost:3128 or
however you installed squid.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Ran Rubinstein 
Dept. of Molecular Biology 
Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Ein Karem, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel +972-2-6757906 Fax +972-2-6758992


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-emboss at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk [mailto:owner-emboss at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk] On
Behalf Of Stefanie Lager
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:45 AM
To: emboss at embnet.org
Subject: Re: [EMBOSS] Negotiating a proxy server

If it's possible to define domains which you don't want to use proxy for
(as you can do in Mozilla and other web-browsers), that would be nice.
Otherwise you have to use ONLY internal databases or ONLY external
databases, since you often can't go though proxy for internal web pages.

Stefanie

> Dear Pierre
> 
> Pierre Scotney wrote:
>> This problem is compounded by the fact that I have to access the
>> internet via a proxy server which I have SET emboss_proxy
>> "myproxyserver:8080" in the emboss.default file.  The problem is the
>> proxy server normally requires a username and password (which works
>> for the Galeon browser).  Who can I get EMBOSS to issue a username
>> and password to the proxy server for authentification?
> 
> Sorry, that is not yet in EMBOSS. We do know how to do it, but there
> has been very little demand so it was not implemented. I will try to
> test it and send you an update to try.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Peter Rice
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