authenticate a web filter in the terminal? (for use of yum, wget, etc)

unknown_mosquito · 05-02-2006, 01:06 PM

I am connected to a school connection.
We have a blocker here, and in the browser, we just type in our user name and password and move on. I need to know how to do the equivalent of this in the terminal, a la export http_proxy, which incidentally does not work.
The error I get when trying to update is

Code:

WWW-Authenticate basic realm="Websense"

and all of the mirrors fail and so does the update.
Currently my only option is opening firefox and hitting refresh the whole time I'm updating :S.

Thanks in advance

demian · 05-02-2006, 03:12 PM

put this in your /etc/yum.conf:

proxy=http://your.proxy.server:[port]
proxy_username=username
proxy_password=password

unknown_mosquito · 05-02-2006, 08:51 PM

Does absolutely nothing.
I think Websense works through some weird fashion, you see, I already tried

Code:

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy:port"

and that didn't work either. In fact it does exactly the same thing. :S