🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew M. Bishop <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In newsgroup uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.unix
>Paul Richards <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have a dialup box and just for fun I'm thinking of setting up a
>> http/ftp proxy server.  It would be partly usefull in that I would have
>> an inter-user web-cache.  I have a few questions though:

>I would suggest that you look at WWWOFFLE if you have a dialup
>connection.  You could use something like squid but that won't allow
>you to browse while offline, record pages for later download, index
>the files that are cached, search the cache (using htdig search
>engine), fetch files on a regular basis and many other fun things.


A very nice program, that I'd hate to live without.

However, I've recently run into a couple of problems.

Should I be able to go to the request page, and type
http://user:pass@some.site.org/

As the search string, or is this a "will sometimes work" thing.

I've enocountered various strangenesses, such as 
a fetch for http://USER:PASSWORD@site/ (in netscape, url directly typed)
that's sent to the wwwoffled proxy port correctly,
coming out as 

wwwoffles[8514]: URL='http://user:PASSWORD@host' (With username/password).

If asked for by wwwoffle -o, it works.

(version 2.5)

Is there somewhere I can read up on how passwords are supposed to work
in general, in http, so I can better understand what the code should
do, and why it isn't?

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