Re: [platform-update-dev] update manager and proxy authentication

[Konrad Kolosowski <konradk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

What was there in the past was not working
and caused problems thus was removed.  See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=54961.
 There is no easy caching implementation.  Any new implementation
needs to ensure there is not to many failed attempts, wrong passwords are
not cached.  I also believe in case of ISA proxy, what we obtain from
the APIs as realm is not the smallest unit for one authentication.  Different
passwords may be required for the same ISA proxy realm depending on what
resource is obtained.  Some password caching is implemented by jre
classes, and smarter yet working implementation in update code may not
be easily written without understanding of ISA proxy specifics and adequate
APIs from jre.

None of the update comitters had the
resources (understanding and access to the ISA proxy) to try to implement
a reliable caching mechanism.  I don't believe this has changed, so
this is the area where wider community involvement and a contribution would
be important.

Konrad Kolosowski

Christophe Elek/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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Subject	Re: [platform-update-dev] update manager and proxy authentication

Korros, 
I checked the code, 
Things have changed drastically since 2.0 
the UpdateManagerAuthenticator does not seem to persist the userid/password
for a certain realm 
So if we get 407 all the time from the proxy, we will prompt the user all
the time 
I will update the bug

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Subject	Re: [platform-update-dev] update manager and proxy authentication

The multiple prompt occures both during when you fetch the info from
the site and during downloading (for every file).

We use the Microsoft ISA Server 2004 sp2.

Is there a way to help? maybe enable tracing?

On 3/2/06, Christophe Elek <celek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok I am trying right now
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> So far I have been prompted only once and I went through all the update
> sites to retrieve the site.xml
> I use CCProxy to test on my machine
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> Does the multiple prompt occur during download or when we fetch the
info
> from the site ?
> What proxy server do you have so I can test with ?
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> Thanks :)
> Chris
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