[Qgis-developer] Re: Release plans for 1.7.1

[Duarte Carreira]

Some notes on my own experience on using qgis through an isa proxy with ntlm authentication:

1-had to use cntlm to overcome ntlm authentication until recently (1.8 nightly)
2-have some erratic behavior, but the best configuration that works every time is setting the proxy type to httpproxy (not defaultproxy), then hostname without http:// or any domain, the username without domain prefix. That's it.

I'd just like to add that this is a must to have qgis in a company. Without it working I wouldn't be even considering introducing qgis company wide, which I am planning now on doing ;)

Duarte

De: Giuseppe Sucameli [mailto:sucameli at faunalia.it]
Enviada: quarta-feira, 24 de Agosto de 2011 18:56
Para: aperi2007 at gmail.com; luca_manganelli at comune.trento.it
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Assunto: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Release plans for 1.7.1

Hi Andrea, Luca,
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:48 PM, aperi2007 <aperi2007 at gmail.com<mailto:aperi2007 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>I discovered that with QGIS 1.6-1.7 WMS connection never uses proxy
>user/password authentication, this is a big problem in corporate
>environments. I filed the bug #3844.

We discovered that also the plugin repository never uses proxy user/password.
Perhaps will use the same classes ?
It work only with proxy anonymous (without user/pwd).
QGis uses a QT class (QNetworkAccessManager) to handle the user authentication,
so I would exclude this is a QGis bug.

Indeed if it were a QGis bug, e.g. an error in setting proxy host and port,
then connection shouldn't have to work also without authentication.

Both these problems may be related to a QT bug in NTLM(v2) authentication,
see at [1].

@Luca: running the python plugin installer under the proxy, does it work?

Regards.

[1] https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-17322<https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-17322>
So to update the plugins we need to put the repositories in the white-list
(very very bad practice for network administrators).

Andrea.

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