"ext Simon Davis" <sd_446 at yahoo.com> writes: > Can the Application installer connect thru a proxy server that has a > password set? I never really tried it myself, but it should be possible, but not in a nice way. The Application Manager gets its proxy configuration from the /system/http_proxy/ keys in GConf, including /system/http_proxy/authentication_user and /system/http_proxy/authentication_password. The Application Manager will not ask the user for a user/password when the proxy requires it but they have not been set in GConf. (The excuse for this is that we use the apt-get http method unchanged and that method doesn't ask.) The question is, how do you get user/password values into GConf? I don't know... > I tried setting the username/password under the wifi proxy > configuration to http://user:password at 10.0.0.1:3128 but got the same > error. I am not sure what you did exactly. You could try putting "user:password at 10.0.0.1" into the "HTTP proxy" field in the "Advanced settings" tab of the Connection manager "Connection setup" wizard. Note, no "http://"; prefix and no port suffix. If this works, we should document it somewhere. (I was hoping for a more general system-wide "Download Manager" kind of thing that would take care of all this for the Application Manager and other applications.)
