This morning I tried to install Android SDK 2.0 on my Ubuntu desktop. I downloaded the package with my browser without any problem. Extract it and then run
tools/android to download the packages. Realising that my desktop requires a proxy which requires authentication to get to the Net, I went to the Settings panel of the Android SDK and AVD. There are only proxy host and port entries, no username and password entries. I was hoping that the software is smart enough to prompt for username and password later. However, I was wrong. It did not prompt me any authentication form whatsoever. Bummer...... Then I got an idea. I remember few months ago when I set up a forwarding only proxy to act as a child of a parent proxy. I thought if I could get this child proxy to authenticate to the parent proxy and forward all request to the parent proxy, the user won't need to authenticate at all. Hmmm.... Looking at the manual of squid http proxy, I saw
cache_peer option which enable child proxy to login to the parent proxy by specifying
login=username:password. Yummy.... So, I fired up the trusty apt-get to pull and install squid from my local repository.
$ sudo apt-get install squid
$ sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Then I added the following setting:
cache_peer parent_proxy.company.domain parent 8080 0 no-query default login=username:password
never_direct allow all
Then I restart squid
$ sudo /etc/init.d/squid stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/squid start
Then I pointed the Android SDK and AVD to use
127.0.0.1 and port
3128. I also set the software to force downloading using http even if the URL is in https. Finger cross and I tick the site and click Refresh. Viola... it works. It is downloading as I write this blog entries.
19 comments:
Hi, i read the snmp code you post the last year, and i'm a student and i'm studying in this arguments snmp, i want know if you can give me the rest of the code because you sad "I don't know how to attach the code to this post..:("...I would really help :(
thank you!
Hi, Please see this post
You're a genius Joko !! Thanx for the tip !
Do you have also a similar solution (proxy server application) for Windows ?
do you have a similar solution (proxy server application) for Windows ?
You can use Windows version of Squid. The configuration is similar.
Hello
thanks for the share
It was helpfull
Regards
do you have any tutorial about squid??
i have tried this tutorial, here is the example :
cache_peer myproxy parent myport 0 no-query default login=myUser:myPasswd never_direct allow all
but i can not start squid :
root@ubuntu:~# /etc/init.d/squid restart
bash: /etc/init.d/squid: No such file or directory
I already install with :
apt-get install squid
i dont know how fix this, i am new in linux, but i'll learn it
You may try the following command as super user.
# start squid
Some newer distributions are using upstart instead of Sys-V init. Btw, could you please inform me what distribution you are currently using? because they have different ways of doing things.
thanks a lot sir :D, now i can start learn android more :D
Thank's a lot ! You save me ;)
saran ane arahkan proxy server ke ip_address dimana squid terinstall dari pada ke 127.0.0.1[khusus windows os installation]
@Chika, this is a special case where the proxy requires authentication whereas Android installer does not provides a way to enter username and password (I guess this applies last year, not sure about now). If your proxy does not require authentication then it should be ok to point the proxy directly to the proxy host.
As alternative, you can use Eclipse (with ADT plugin installed). Start Eclipse, enter proxy username and passwod, click Window --> "Android SDK and AVD Manager".
thanks a lot :)
Very clever "bridge"!
Pretty cool solution. Excelent tip.
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