Bug 362061

Summary: clamav does not work through proxies
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David W. Legg <dwlegg>
Component: clamavAssignee: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 0.41.1-6.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description David W. Legg 2007-11-01 16:32:41 UTC
Description of problem:
Firefox works through our work proxy server, but klamav fails when given
equivalent proxy settings.  Message is 'Can't read from remote server.'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
klamav-0.41.1-5.fc7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start klamav as ordinary user (not root).
2. run klamav.
3. Fill in proxy server IP, port (3128), user (domain\userid), password.
4. Click on Update.
  
Actual results:
Error Message is 'Can't read from remote server.'

Expected results:
Should download latest virus definitions.

Additional info:
Also, the password is in plain text.
The proxy settings do not get remembered by klamav.  You have to re-type them in
next time.

Comment 1 Andy Shevchenko 2007-11-07 13:14:40 UTC
Ok. In the next I put all my investigations to this report.

The anonymous access to the proxy works fine. You could test it by install 
local squid f.e.

The authorized access sometime not works indeed. I try two combinations on one 
of my proxies. In first, I put regitered user account and it not works. In 
second, I register a new one account. With the last one the klamav works fine. 
Only one difference still present between those accounts - russian and english 
username (squid is authorized via MS ADS).

Is your proxy login contain non-ascii (in strict rule all except english 
letters or digits) symbols? Try to use ascii account name. [1]

About saving preferenses. You should use the /etc/freshclam.conf file. However, 
klamav may try to add the local settings after global ones when start.

Now, I'm only trying to fix the visible password field. This is really unsecure.

[1] Anyway the klamav is still frontend to the clamav binaries only. The above 
described bug isn't klamav's but freshclam's (from clamav package). Please, 
refill it to the clamav.


Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2007-11-08 05:59:46 UTC
klamav-0.41.1-6.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update klamav'

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-11-09 23:42:39 UTC
klamav-0.41.1-6.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update klamav'

Comment 4 David W. Legg 2007-11-10 11:32:36 UTC
Have moved this bug to point at clamav as advised above, and changed the title.

Comment 5 Andy Shevchenko 2007-11-11 12:58:27 UTC
Enrico, please review this report. Thank you.

Comment 6 Enrico Scholz 2007-11-11 18:14:38 UTC
When the report is due to the non-ascii username/password, then it is NOT A BUG.
HTTP/PROXY basic auth protocol does not contain any information about the used
charset and will work with US-ASCII logindata only.


Comment 7 David W. Legg 2007-11-12 19:36:01 UTC
The user name used was domainname\username with a totally ASCII password.
Does that count as non-ASCII?

If so, a way of being able to omit the domainname is needed so that the '\' can
be missed out.  Alternatively, handling non-ASCII chars such as '\' would be cool.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2007-11-12 23:55:17 UTC
klamav-0.41.1-6.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2007-11-12 23:56:28 UTC
klamav-0.41.1-6.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Andy Shevchenko 2007-11-13 10:35:35 UTC
Sorry for bodhi's noise.


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