Christian,

Since the functionality that this improvement request was created for works for you, I will resolve this issue. Can you please create a support request for the problem when confluence tries anonymous access before using authentication: https://support.atlassian.com/.

Anatoli.

Marking as implemented rather than resolved as there is no infrastructure to test this functionality.

Anatoli,

yes, that's the situation. As you can see, there are two request to the proxy at the same time, but one of them is anonymous. Although, rss feeds are shown correctly.

Christian,
when accessing a proxy server it shouldn't try an anonymous access first. I don't have a proxy server handy and cannot test it but just from inspecting the code it should use the authentication straight away if it is configured.

Let me just make sure that I understand your situation correctly.
The rss feeds through a proxy with authentication work fine for you. However it looks like it tries to use an anonymous access before trying the authentication. Is it the situation?

Update:
I just checked our proxy logs, and there are still anonymous AND user accesses to the proxy. Is Confluence always trying anonymous access at first? I have NOT defined any non-proxy hosts.

Anatoli,

thanks for the info. The configuration was correct, but yet I had only tested the repository.

I have read CONF-2326, and as it is mentioned there, RSS-feeds work with proxies, while the plugin repository won't. That's exact the behaviour I can reproduce on our test system. I think I will contact Adaptavist about this.

Rick, Christian,

The fix was merged with the code and released with all confluence versions from 2.7 onwards. However it was not properly tested. Can you please test if it works for you? You need to specify following system parameters:

• http.proxyHost
• http.proxyPort
• http.proxyUser
• http.proxyPassword

Note that authentication for NTLM proxies is not supported: CONF-2326

Any plans to release the changed source with the next release of Confluence? Or how can I add this fix to an existing instance? We are using several plugins and plan to update them via the repository. Also our users are requesting to make RSS-Feeds available, so this feature would be really important to us.

This is critical for companies that use authenticating proxies and wish to include content like RSS, use the plugin repo, etc. I don't know how it's a low with that in mind; if the code attached works, why not schedule this for release in 2.7.2/2.8?

has this been added to confluence 2.6, or one still has to add the fix separately ?