I've been a member since 14 Aug 1999, but have not done any work since losing internet availability at home. Prompted by SETI that I've not done any WUs since lat year, I'm now trying to attach to any project e.g. SET@Home at work with BOINC 5.10.45, but no luck and just get 'The Project is temporarily Unavailable, please try again later'. Have entered Proxy values from companies connection okay but still no go and suspect the format is not compatible. Any suggestions? Or example of the correct formats?

setup a cc_config.xml in your BOINC directory.
Make sure you add the option <force_auth>x</force_auth> where 'x' is any of the available flags: basic, digest, gss-negotiate or ntlm

Set it to what the proxy you're behind uses for its authentication method.

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Sorry for copying your PM to me to the forums, Peter, but it's best handled here.

You don't need all the info in cc_config.xml in there.
All you need is:

<cc_config>
<options>
<force_auth>basic</force_auth>
</options>
</cc_config>

I put in basic there as I don't know what form of authentication the proxy server uses that you are behind. If you have permission from the network people to use BOINC, you best ask them that. The options to use are basic, digest, gss-negotiate or ntlm.

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I'm having problems getting information from the various project serves TO my server.

I'm getting the following response:

24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] info: HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication Required
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Server: squid/2.5.STABLE14
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Mime-Version: 1.0
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:03:38 GMT
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Content-Length: 1326
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Expires: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:03:38 GMT
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="Company Squid Proxy"
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: X-Cache: MISS from pwsqd4
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from pwsqd4:8080
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Proxy-Connection: close
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server:
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_xfer_debug] HTTP: wrote 1326 bytes


24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 12050.99MB
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 21691.78MB
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 7.48GB
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] [work_fetch_debug] Request work fetch: Prefs update
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] [work_fetch_debug] Request work fetch: Startup
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] [work_fetch_debug] Request work fetch: timer
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] [work_fetch_debug] compute_work_requests(): start
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [---] [work_fetch_debug] compute_work_requests(): cpu_shortfall 241920.000000, overall urgency Need immediately
24-Apr-2008 10:18:13 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] [work_fetch_debug] work fetch: project not contactable; skipping

I have my username and password defined in my client_state.xml as:
<proxy_info>
<use_http_proxy/>
<socks_version>5</socks_version>
<socks_server_name>[proxy.address.com]</socks_server_name>
<socks_server_port>8080</socks_server_port>
<http_server_name>[proxy.address.com]</http_server_name>
<http_server_port>8080</http_server_port>
<socks5_user_name>[username]</socks5_user_name>
<socks5_user_passwd>[password]</socks5_user_passwd>
<http_user_name>[username]</http_user_name>
<http_user_passwd>[password]</http_user_passwd>
</proxy_info>

Any suggestions?
Should I define my proxy info in the cc_config.xml? If so, can someone show me how? Currently, my cc_config.xml file reads as:

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<cpu_sched>1</cpu_sched>
<http_debug>1</http_debug>
<http_xfer_debug>1</http_xfer_debug>
<proxy_debug>1</proxy_debug>
<file_xfer_debug>1</file_xfer_debug>
<work_fetch_debug>1</work_fetch_debug>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>

Kind Regards

I'm having problems getting information from the various project serves TO my server.

I'm getting the following response:

24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication Required
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="Company Squid Proxy"

Any suggestions?
Should I define my proxy info in the cc_config.xml? If so, can someone show me how?

You can try:

<cc_config>
    <log_flags>
        <cpu_sched>1</cpu_sched>
        <http_debug>1</http_debug>
        <http_xfer_debug>1</http_xfer_debug>
        <proxy_debug>1</proxy_debug>
        <file_xfer_debug>1</file_xfer_debug>
        <work_fetch_debug>1</work_fetch_debug>
    </log_flags>
    <options>
        <force_auth>basic</force_auth>
    </options>
</cc_config>

Peter

I'm having problems getting information from the various project serves TO my server.

I'm getting the following response:

24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: HTTP/1.0 407 Proxy Authentication Required
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="Company Squid Proxy"

Any suggestions?
Should I define my proxy info in the cc_config.xml? If so, can someone show me how?

You can try:

<cc_config>
    <log_flags>
        <cpu_sched>1</cpu_sched>
        <http_debug>1</http_debug>
        <http_xfer_debug>1</http_xfer_debug>
        <proxy_debug>1</proxy_debug>
        <file_xfer_debug>1</file_xfer_debug>
        <work_fetch_debug>1</work_fetch_debug>
    </log_flags>
    <options>
        <force_auth>basic</force_auth>
    </options>
</cc_config>

Peter

Stopped the proccess, and updated the cc_config.xml, and restarted. Still no luck.

I think this has to do with the line:
24-Apr-2008 10:03:38 [---] [http_debug] [ID#7] Received header from server: X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0

I recall a SQUID-proxy thread over at CPDN a while back.

If I recall correctly the ultimate cause of the problem in that thread was that the SQUID box was faking ACKs in order to make the latency look better. However your problem may be different - it looks like some kind of authentication error.

The user in that case had an alternate proxy which could be used, and swapping the proxy resolved the problem.

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