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Archive for the ‘Windows-Http-Proxy’ Category

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Debugging problems with the network proxy (via: The Chromium Projects)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/08

In this case, another tool didn’t obtain the right Proxy settings.

Chrome to the rescue as chrome://net-internals/#proxy shows you the system proxy settings:

When browsers are experiencing network problems, generally the first thing to test is your network proxy settings. Misconfigured settings, or misbehaving settings, can have a profound impact on your network traffic possibly resulting in pages not loading at all.

Main take aways: chrome://net-internals/#proxy

Since then, I created this small batch file:

reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" | findstr proxy

And this one to edit the settings:

"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL inetcpl.cpl,,4

It will open the same Window that your Control Panel or Internet Explorer uses to manage connection and proxy settings.
From there click the “LAN Settings” button to edit the proxy configuration.

–jeroen

via: Debugging problems with the network proxy – The Chromium Projects.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

Batch file that finds and starts Cntlm.exe in verbose mode.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/13

As a follow up on the Cntlm configuration post last week, here is a small batch file that will find Cntlm.exe (on x86 and x64 systems) then start it in verbose mode.


call :start %ProgramFiles%
call :start %ProgramFiles(x86)%
goto :end
:start
startlocal
set cntlm="%*\Cntlm\Cntlm.exe"
echo %cntlm%
if exist %cntlm% start "Cntlm verbose" %cntlm% -v
endlocal
goto :end
:end

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start-Cntlm-verbose.bat

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–jeroen

Posted in Cntlm, Development, Fiddler, NTLM, Power User, Web Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

testing HTTPS with openssl « The Sarth Repository

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/22

Interesting:

openssl s_client -connect localhost:443

I don’t have a Linux machine here, but this might work too:

gnutls www.somesite

And note that when using telnet, the hostnames must match:

$ openssl s_client -connect XXX.XX.XX.XXX:443
... connection information will be displayed …
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: XXX.XX.XX.XXX

or

$ openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443
... connection information will be displayed …
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: www.example.com

Don’t MIX

Now I need to research how it works with a proxy… simulate a “connect http/1.1 443” proxy – Google Search.

–jeroen

via:

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Fiddler2 to the max: inserting proxy authentication to use DropBox (or other app) behind a corporate firewall

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16


A while ago, I was working with a not so cooperative corporate firewall. All web browsers would work fine, but most other applications would not go through the proxy in a nice way.

For instance, DropBox would show the dreadfull “Connection Error” dialog shown on the right.

That dialog basically means “Dropbox has no clue what happens, try fiddling with your proxy or account settings, then press Reconnect Now” to retry.

Many other applications had issues (for instance Visual Studio connecting to Team Foundation System was very unreliable and the workarounds clumsy).

CNTLM: not the solution

I got inspired by the [WayBack] I code and code: Tutorial: How to use Dropbox behind a corporate proxy server using CNTLM, even though I was pretty sure the corporate firewall was not NTLM based.

And indeed, CNTLM -v -M http://google.com -c CNTLM.INI would give errors like this:

cntlm: Proxy returning invalid challenge!
headers_send: fd 4 warning -999 (connection closed)
Connection closed

HTTP Fiddler: looks promising

So I fired up my old buddy [WayBack] Fiddler 2 HTTP debugging proxy.

Further on, you will learn that Fiddler2 is much more, but right now it is enough to know that it basically sits as a local proxy between your applications and the outside world. Read the rest of this entry »

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