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With version 10, I get this pop-up window:

Authentication Required

Is there a way to let Mathematica use my Windows login credentials, as for instance Firefox does?

AxelF
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  • maybe at least there is a solution to keep "these values" not only for this session instead of changing the proxy properties? – Phab Oct 08 '14 at 06:45

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Edit -> Preferences -> Internet Connectivity -> Proxy Settings

switch to "Use the following settings" and try

[user]:[pwd]@[Proxyname].[Domain]:[Port]
Phab
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  • Thank you for your answer, but this is not quite what I was looking for. Your suggestion would require to save the password in plain text, which I am not happy about. I would also have to change every 90 days, when our security policies require a new password. Is there no way to pass the windows login credentials as Firefox seems to be able to? – AxelF Oct 07 '14 at 13:42
  • @AxelF The Fiddler reference in my answer does that. In fact I do not even have my own password as we work with a card+PIN combination, with password hidden to the user. Fiddler uses Microsoft's single sign on (SSO) mechanism to identify to the proxy without having to know the password. – Sjoerd C. de Vries Oct 08 '14 at 15:20
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I had the same in V9 on my work (can't test V10 right now), and it often seemed to be a problem of a proxy using the NTLM protocol for authentication which Mathematica had difficulties with. I found a solution by installing the debugging proxy Fiddler as an intermediate between Mathematica and the company proxy to do the NTLM talking.

However, I just noticed that if you select "Use the following settings:" in the Internet Connectivity>ProxySettings tab and leave all the boxes empty (except the "Port:" boxes which are on 0 by default) everything works without Fiddler. Looks like magic and probably won't work in many cases but might be worth a try.

Sjoerd C. de Vries
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    does'nt work for me ... leaving the fields empty. I get no window for user and pwd, but I'll get a time out for any operation using internet connection. – Phab Oct 08 '14 at 06:44
  • @phab Well, that's a pity, but as I said it probably won't work in many cases, however, it did for me. – Sjoerd C. de Vries Oct 08 '14 at 15:25