Many companies use Microsoft ISA/ TMG as their enterprise proxy solution. This may work for most cases. But in some scenarios, it does not work well. For example, use WinSCP or Putty behind the proxy AND the proxy requires authentication.
ISA/ TMG is mircrosoft technology, it uses NTLM based authentication which is not supported by many third party software. I found this out when writing a script to download files from an external SFTP server. WinSCP always gave me a proxy authentication error.
The workaround is to setup a local proxy that supports NTLM authentication. I use cntlm which works well for me. This is how it works:
Here is the code example:
@ECHO OFF
cd /d %~dp0
set USERNAME=
set PASSWORD=
editV64 -p ” Please enter your username: ” USERNAME
editV64 -p ” Please enter your password: ” -m PASSWORD
cntlm -u %USERNAME% -p %PASSWORD% -c cntlm.ini
winscp session_name /console /command “option confirm off” “get *” “exit”
taskkill /F /IM cntlm.exe
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