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One thing that puzzles me is why Linux (specifically Fedora) doesn’t have native support for NTLM proxy servers. The Gnome proxy settings do allow for authenticated proxies but if you are stuck behind a Microsoft ISA server then you are out of luck.

Actually this isn’t quite correct as you can download ntlmaps and then set your proxy setting to point to this which then authenticates your connections.

But I don’t understand why this can’t be included as standard. It occurred to me that there could be licensing issues but Firefox does have native support and that’s open source (even though the license is different, Mozilla Public License vs GPL V2).