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8722 :: Issues with proxy authentication

• xioren (orginal) [2021-12-18T07:13:44+01:00] view original

  I am having issues authenticating with a specific proxy provider.

  let someProxy = newProxy("http://hostname:port", "username:password")
  let client = newHttpClient(proxy=someProxy)
  echo client.getContent("http://ipv4.icanhazip.com")
  Run

  While this code works with one proxy provider I use, another fails to authorize. I figured it might be an issue with the proxy but I can connect just fine using curl:

  
  curl -v --proxy http://hostname:port -U username:password http://ipv4.icanhazip.com/
  Run

  The above code curl command connects to the proxy just fine so I'm left scratching my head. Any ideas?

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• xioren (orginal) [2021-12-18T07:29:04+01:00] view original

  FWIW if and only if I manually add the "proxy-authorization" header entry and use the proxy url in the form http://username:password@hostname:port does it work...which is weird.

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• xioren (orginal) [2021-12-18T19:50:24+01:00] view original

  last addition: Apart from cURL, similar code also works in Python so I'm not sure there isn't some issue with Nims proxy auth handling.

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• ZadaZorg (orginal) [2021-12-19T03:59:12+01:00] view original

  Nim Proxy support only basic authentication. So there is chance, that proxy which fail uses something else. You can verify this by reading Proxy-Authenticate header response from proxy.

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• xioren (orginal) [2021-12-19T06:49:20+01:00] view original

  Yeah cURL and my python test code use basic auth too. My naive assumption is that there is something different about how the "proxy-authorization" header is handled with Nim. I'm currently reading through the source code to see if I can figure it out.

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• ZadaZorg (orginal) [2021-12-19T23:11:43+01:00] view original

  Ah, cool. looking at https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes/http-authschemes.xhtml it looks like most schemes are named with the capital first letter.

  You have to create pull request to nim code :)

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• xioren (orginal) [2021-12-20T01:31:56+01:00] view original

  Yessir, already merged to devel.

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• emiliasingle (orginal) [2022-04-05T02:53:15+02:00] view original

  Hi, I get the thread is old, but I have just had the same issue. I have also been looking for any possible ways to solve this problem.

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• xioren (orginal) [2022-04-07T01:40:37+02:00] view original

  What version of Nim are you running?

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• emiliasingle (orginal) [2022-04-08T09:52:31+02:00] view original

  I ran into a similar problem month ago. My proxy server didn’t work together with the Microsoft store. Moreover, the applications indicated that there was no Internet connection. Therefore, I decided to switch to a [url=https://soax.com/turkey-proxy][color=black]turkish proxy[/color][/url]. If you also use Windows, you can reduce the effect of these problems by enabling unauthorized access through a proxy server. It is also recommended to do the same with URLs. Btw, some proxy servers offer to create a list of valid addresses. You need to change the registry after applying this update.

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• emiliasingle (orginal) [2022-04-08T09:53:17+02:00] view original

  I ran into a similar problem month ago.

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• WhitneyDavenport (orginal) [2022-09-06T21:16:17+02:00] view original

  I have exactly the same problem. Some time ago, I urgently needed a reliable and trusted proxy provider. It took me a long time to choose because I wouldn't have a second chance. In the end, I found a great vendor with a good reputation.

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