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Re: How to read proxy username and password?



Is it possible they're stored in Keychain?

-Colin

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Mark Allan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got an application which uses a third party command line tool to download some files from the web.  Unfortunately, the command line tool won't work with a proxy server unless the proxy settings are written in clear text (ugly but nothing I can do about that) in a config file.  The config file itself is read/write only by root, so it's not *quite* as hideous as it could be ;-)
>
> Anyway, writing to the config file isn't a problem.  My question is how can I read the System proxy username and password settings from within my application in order to be able to write them to the file?
>
> I've searched through the mailing list archives and had a look at the SystemConfiguration Framework API but still can't quite find what I'm looking for.  The closest thing I can see is SCDynamicStoreCopyProxies but that only returns the following keys in the dictionary:
>        kSCPropNetProxiesExceptionsList
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPEnable
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPProxy
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPPort
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPSEnable
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPSProxy
>        kSCPropNetProxiesHTTPSPort
>        kSCPropNetProxiesFTPEnable
>        kSCPropNetProxiesFTPProxy
>        kSCPropNetProxiesFTPPort
>        kSCPropNetProxiesFTPPassive
> none of which is what I'm looking for.
>
> Can anyone help please?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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