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Authored by: LightYear on Mar 02, '03 11:40:33PM
Authoxy is based on Privoxy

It is? As Authoxy's developer I must admit I'm not in total agreement. I'd say closer to 'inspired by' than 'based on' :-)
Before I began writing Authoxy, I used Privoxy. It was workable as an authentication solution (I didn't really use any of the privacy stuff), but hardly a perfect solution. So I wrote Authoxy from scratch. There is no shared code between Authoxy and Privoxy. I think I did steal the naming idea though, sorry for the confusion!
HTTPS support is coming in Authoxy folks! I have a couple of things to work on in the mean time (support for .pac files is next), but it is on the agenda. Do check out Privoxy or Squid for now though, if you are brave enough.
As an aside, I must admit it is rewarding to have worked on Authoxy until very late last night, and then find it mentioned on the first page of MacOSXHints (which I really try to frequent), along with VersionTracker and MacUpdate, this morning.

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Authoxy & iCal
Authored by: zakaria on Mar 04, '03 07:20:46AM

Could Authoxy be the solution to the iCal publis&subscribe problem ? iCal always tries to use port 80 during publish&subscribe. We have a proxy without authentication but with port 81. So couldn't authoxy redirect iCals request to the correct proxy ? I gave it a shot but so far it didn't work... Anybody an idea for the iCal-problem ?



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Authoxy & iCal
Authored by: LightYear on Mar 06, '03 12:48:51AM

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, iCal makes no attempt whatsoever to use the proxy settings in System Preferences. I'm confident, that if one could point iCal at Authoxy, subscribe and publish would work, but as it stands, iCal and Authoxy have no way of knowing about each other. Quite frustrating really, considering so many of Apple's other apps do what one would imagine is the right thing, and pay attention to the user Proxy settings.

If you (or anyone else) would like to discuss this further, please email me. I'll keep an eye on the situation, but there really is not a lot I can do from my end.

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