I'm using BOINC at work. All our communication has to pass the proxy and we have to authenticate on it.
I entered the address, port, user name and password in at BOINC Manager -> Advanced -> Options... -> HTTP Proxy:

IP address: 192.168.1.1
Port: 8080
Username: ndg
Password: myPWD

but I still can't connect.

In the logs of the proxy it seems that BOINC Manager uses anonymous.

Does the manager just ignore the username and password?


Extract of the proxy log: (2 lines split into 3 parts)

Original Client IP | Client Agent                            | Authenticated Client | Service | Server Name | Referring Server	
0.0.0.0	           | BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.10.28) | Yes                  | Proxy   | GWAN01      | http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1
0.0.0.0	           | BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.10.28) | Yes                  | Proxy   | GWAN01      | http://boinc.berkeley.edu

Referring Server                             | Destination Host Name | Transport | HTTP Status Code
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1 | boinc.berkeley.edu    | TCP       | 5 Access is denied. 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1 | boinc.berkeley.edu    | TCP       | 12209 The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. 
                                                                                 | Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied. 

Client IP     | Destination IP | Destination Port | Protocol | Action                    | Client Username | HTTP Method | URL
192.168.1.122 | 192.168.1.1    | 8080             | http     | Failed Connection Attempt | anonymous       | GET         | http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1
192.168.1.122 | 192.168.1.1    | 8080             | http     | Denied Connection         | anonymous       | GET         | http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php?xml=1

I'm using BOINC at work. All our communication has to pass the proxy and we have to authenticate on it.
I entered the address, port, user name and password in at BOINC Manager -> Advanced -> Options... -> HTTP Proxy:

IP address: 192.168.1.1
Port: 8080
Username: ndg
Password: myPWD

but I still can't connect.

In the logs of the proxy it seems that BOINC Manager uses anonymous.

Does the manager just ignore the username and password?

Yes, I think it looks like this, it fails to initiate the authentication. IIRC 5.8.16 was one of the latest (somehow stable) versions, which worked for me behind (MS ISA) NTLM proxy. You can blame used libCurl library :-(

Currently one known workaround is to install and use an aditional proxy application, which would correctly pass Boinc communication over the ISA proxy at work. Let us know, whether it works fine for you ;-)

You can refer to few other NTLM or proxy related threads for reference:
Internet access thru proxy
NTLM Proxy problem
Mysterious error 500 still with me

Peter

Currently one known workaround is to install and use an aditional proxy application, which would correctly pass Boinc communication over the ISA proxy at work. Let us know, whether it works fine for you ;-)

I installed NTLM Authorization Proxy Server and it seems to work.

Let us know, whether it works fine for you ;-)

I installed NTLM Authorization Proxy Server and it seems to work.

Good to know, thanks!

Peter