On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 09:43, William Hooper wrote: > Randy Perkins said: > > hello > > > > i am using a proxy server for my internet connection. > > > > i would like to avoid having to type in the user/password > > each time that i initially open the web browser. > > You could set up squid on your machine (secured to only allow connections > from localhost, of course) and tell it your passworded proxy is the > parent. > > That would allow you to use any web browser you want (lynx, mozilla, konq, > etc, even wget and curl) without worrying about the password. > > -- > William Hooper > thanks for your reply I will have to check that out. it would solve all my proxy problesms. the client computer in question is a celeron 1.5g laptop. i was first worried the squid would bog it down. but i looked at my squid proxy, running on a p3 450m, and it was only using 2% of memory. of course, no one else uses this proxy but me. i really would like to use the kde feature kionetrc. i may have to ask on a kde list. i saw where someone had asked in the past on a kde list, but had gotten no response. there is documentation for the .netrc file, and i have setup the kionetrc in the same way, but the kionetrc file has an additional attribute called "type", and i cant find any docs on it. thanks randy
