could someone please help me with my problem i have posted here:

http://www.boincsynergy.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27354

just installed boinc 5.3.26 on my machine at work yesterday. since that, boinc fails to connect to any sheduler through our http proxy with authentification, google network check succeeds tho. attaching, uploading, request work - nothing works.

i found that the check with google is made via GET, but the sheduler request is performed via POST, boinc just wouldnt authentificate to proxy via POST. in general, authentification with POST works with this proxy.

BOINC 5.3.26 + HTTP Proxy Authentification + POST HTTP Sheduler Request = Incompatible?

i am about to bite into my desk, this is a mess! i am glad i still got a cpdn wu around on this machine, so no cpu time will be lost (at least not yet) ;)

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BOINC 5.3.26 is a development version (for alpha testing). It is not a production version, which is recognizable by the middle number being even, like 5.2.13.

So it can be unstable or parts of it can be broken. Which can be told about on the Alpha mailinglist.

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i know its alpha, thats why i posted this message to the alpha mailing list before.

i was not sure if this might be a bug in the core client or if its just a problem with our network structure.
since i got no reply on the mailing lists yet, i just want to ask other people if they get the same problem under similar circumstances.

maybe someone might know how to fix it, since right now i can not easily turn back to a stable version at this point without loosing data.

sorry if my post looked like a complaint or somethin - it was not meant to be. ok so here is my question again, simplified:
can someone verify if there is a problem with sheduler requests via POST through http proxy authentification with boinc version 5.3.26?

thanks

ps.: can someone tell me why i can only report bugs up to verson 5.2.10 in boinczilla bug database? should i take it like this database is being discontinued?

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I got the same problem on my network but with the core client version 5.2.13.

I traced the HTTP request and the problem seem to be that the client don't include the auth password phrase in the request, so the proxy asks it for each request, and it timeouts on the POST.

Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Proxy:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:50 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Length: 257\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/html\\r\\n
Server: NetCache appliance (NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: close\\r\\n
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="*****"\\r\\n
\\r\\n
Line-based text data: text/html


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
Proxy-Authorization: Basic *****r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Referer: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Seti:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\r\\n
Transfer-Encoding: chunked\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:50 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/xml\\r\\n
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.0 PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
Via: 1.1 proxauth4 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
\\r\\n
HTTP chunked response
eXtensible Markup Language


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu//lookup_account.php?email_addr=*****&passwd_hash=***** HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Proxy:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:11:06 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Length: 257\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/html\\r\\n
Server: NetCache appliance (NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: close\\r\\n
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="*****"\\r\\n
\\r\\n
Line-based text data: text/html


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu//lookup_account.php?email_addr=*****&passwd_hash=***** HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
Proxy-Authorization: Basic *****\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Referer: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu//lookup_account.php?email_addr=*****&passwd_hash=*****\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Seti:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\r\\n
Transfer-Encoding: chunked\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:11:06 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/xml\\r\\n
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.0 PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
Via: 1.1 proxauth4 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
\\r\\n
HTTP chunked response
eXtensible Markup Language


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Proxy:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:11:08 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Length: 257\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/html\\r\\n
Server: NetCache appliance (NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: close\\r\\n
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="*****"\\r\\n
\\r\\n
Line-based text data: text/html


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
Proxy-Authorization: Basic *****\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiathome.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Referer: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
\\r\\n


Seti:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\r\\n
Transfer-Encoding: chunked\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:11:08 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/html\\r\\n
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.0 PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1\\r\\n
Via: 1.1 proxauth4 (NetCache NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
\\r\\n
HTTP chunked response
Line-based text data: text/html


Client:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
POST http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1\\r\\n
User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_intelx86 5.02)\\r\\n
Host: setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu\\r\\n
Pragma: no-cache\\r\\n
Accept: */*\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\\r\\n
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\\r\\n
Content-Length: 2072\\r\\n
Expect: 100-continue\\r\\n
\\r\\n

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Data (1460 bytes)

<scheduler_request>.
[...]
</scheduler_request>.


Proxy:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required\\r\\n
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:11:11 GMT\\r\\n
Content-Length: 257\\r\\n
Content-Type: text/html\\r\\n
Server: NetCache appliance (NetApp/5.5R6D42)\\r\\n
Proxy-Connection: close\\r\\n
Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="*****"\\r\\n
\\r\\n
Line-based text data: text/html


(timeout)

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