up2date from behind microsoft firewall

[Coghlan, Peter (Panels Oberon)]

Normally on a linux box I would install the APS098 NTLM python program.
I also tried the using the browser without the APS098 NTLM
By using manual proxy setting, giving specifying proxy server and p[ort
number and use authentication.

But I am still stuck
I tried the suggestion below on a gentoo linux box without success
So I is unlikely to work with red hat will give it a go a bit later
today
When the dust settles

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-June/001357.html


-----Original Message-----
From: James Wilkinson [mailto:james at westexe.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:39 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: up2date from behind microsoft firewall

Coghlan, Peter (Panels Oberon) wrote:
> So far I am unable to run up2date from behind microsoft firewall.
> I have ADSL at home where up2date works reasonably well but at work
> I cannot run up2date because of the loveley MS firewall 

Which *can* be set up sanely. Does yours *require* NTLM authentication,
or will it use what Microsoft are pleased to call "basic"
authentication?  (This is under the control of your system
administrators: can you ask yours to add support for basic
authentication?)

Take a look at the messages around
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-June/001357.html
where yum was persuaded to work through a proxy.
> Tried APS098 (NTLM authenticator) from sourceforge which makes web
> browser work OK
> But I am stuck on up2date because it must be trying to use https which
> Aps098 does not support anything but http requests.

Can you get yum to work through that?

I can't remember off-hand exactly what up2adte does require, but yum is
plain HTTP.

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maybe they won't change their proxy setup for you.

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