On 2/4/05 5:55 PM, "Steve Hodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  More info (in case Heath is around):
> 
> 1. I found one offending program - MS Entourage. ON startup and at intervals
> during using it, it obviously uses HTTP for something (unrelated to actually
> reading any emails) ... this will return the "Unexpected server response in
> NTLM authentication Step 2. Giving up." Could it be Entourage can do NTLM so a
> proxied NTLM request fails?

Don't know how often Entourage checks for updates, but you might try turning
Microsoft Autoupdate to manual. I will check on Monday to see if Authoxy
fails with Entourage Autoupdate. I run Entourage but I don't run Authoxy all
the time, only when needed.

> 
> 2. Certain websites will cause the same error - no idea. What I dod know is
> that certain sites (usually have .asp or .jsp page references) also cause the
> error.

Send me an URL or two and I'll try them with Explorer & Authoxy.

--Steve

> 
> There must be a problem with the authoxy code though....because after a
> certain # of these errors (it varies), Authoxy stops responding and delivers
> the Fatal Error: unable to create shared memory
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Friday, February 04, 2005, at 11:03AM, Steve Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>>       thanks for the reply. I will try running on a different port just in
>> case. Since 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 I thought this problem was solved too but it
>> started going wrong again, which lead me to conclude:
>> 
>> 1. Our IT guys changed config on the server
>> 2. An update from Apple screwed it. I uninstalled Authoxy and re-installed it
>> and also did the repair permissions mojo etc. to no avail.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On Friday, February 04, 2005, at 08:36AM, Steven Stratford
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> there are some people here  :)
>>> 
>>> I have had very little problems or lost connections with it, once Heath made
>>> some changes (3.1.1. to 3.1.2).
>>> 
>>> Are you running Authoxy on the same port as the proxy? Our proxy is 8080, I
>>> run Authoxy on 8081. In the the NTLM tab, I'm not sure how much is relevant
>>> there to dropped connections, but our proxy is on the "MAIN" server and my
>>> powerbook is named "SSTRATPBOOK" in the Sharing preferences, so that's what
>>> I have there.
>>> 
>>> As far as compatible apps, I have not found any apple app to be
>>> incompatible, including iPhoto, iTunes, Safari (but use FireFox and get the
>>> plugin called "SwitchProxy" if you're mobile between proxy/nonproxy
>>> locations!), Software Update. Most non-apple apps are compatible, even stuff
>>> like Microsoft Office Application Update. I only found Skype and MaxiBidder
>>> that didn't work. Of course I haven't tried everything.
>>> 
>>> --Steve
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2/3/05 1:06 PM, "Steve Hodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>    I've been using Authoxy for some time here at work, where almost
>>>> everything
>>>> is MS based including our procy server. In the past I had occasional
>>>> problem
>>>> with pages not being served and the web browser giving an error..I would
>>>> then
>>>> have to reboot because no combination of stop/start authoxy, log in or log
>>>> out
>>>> or changing locations and then back again would get the proxy to serve me
>>>> pages again. Later versions of authoxy 3.11, 3.12 seemed to be better in
>>>> this
>>>> regards, killing and re-spawning threads seemed to work. Now it's gone back
>>>> to
>>>> the old behaviour...I can get anywhere from 5 to 30 mins working and then
>>>> *boom*.
>>>> 
>>>>  It is conceivable that our IT dept upgraded the server and there are
>>>> version
>>>> issues (e.g. a timeout maybe) Has anyone else encountered this and found a
>>>> possible solution?
>>>> 
>>>> Stuck using Mac IE 5.xx right now and none of the other internet apps work
>>>> without Authoxy working well.
>>>> i wish Apple would build an NTLM auth module into the OS...Mac is
>>>> practically
>>>> useless without Authoxy.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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