Basic Auth not working with browsers

[flo-assling]

Thank you for providing this script.
Works perfectly without authentication.
But when starting with basic auth, and adding the correct credentials to my browser, I always get "Unauthorized"...
Tested starting with with --basic-auth 'user:pass' // --basic-auth user:pass // -basic-auth 'user:pass' // -basic-auth user:pass

[kanwairen123]

It seems the browser not sending the "Proxy-Authorization" header to proxy server, I'm also struggling with the issue, if you have a solution, kindly share with me, thank you!

[jthomperoo]

Sorry for such a slow fix on this.

Thanks @kanwairen123 you were right and started me in the right direction - digging into the Chrome spec this proxy was using the wrong responses. For HTTP auth to work with browsers they need to not respond with a 401 Unauthorized on authorization failure, but instead a 407 Proxy Authentication Required, and to return the Proxy-Authenticate header with the authorization type (Basic for this proxy).

Read more about it here:
https://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-authentication/#proxy-authentication

I've put a fix together in this pull request: #3

Just going to do some sanity testing around this and I'll merge + cut a new version.

The behaviour will be this:

1. Set up your proxy, for my Mac it is done through system settings for Chrome.
2. When I load a site on Chrome it will prompt me for the authentication details.
3. When I put those in the authentication works for me.

[jthomperoo]

Available with version v1.1.1, let me know if this solves it for you :)

[kanwairen123]

Available with version v1.1.1, let me know if this solves it for you :)

Thanks, works as expected now!