title: NTLM proxy without password?
body: <p>I work on a corporate windows network (which I log in to) with a HTTP proxy. When I use Internet Explorer it magically uses the proxy without me needing to type in my password. Certain other programs seem to manage this too, like JavaWebStart has a "use browser settings" option.</p>
  
  <p>However when I use scripts/programs like curl or wget to fetch stuff from http, or do it within my Java code I seem to need to have my password stored somewhere, which obviously isn't best for security.</p>
  
  <p><strong>How can I get the password-less access that internet explorer has in a programmatic way?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm arguing this is a stack overflow question because I'm a programmer and I need my programs/scripts to work without typing in the password, though I can see that others might think it belongs on Server Fault/Superuser.</p>
  
  <p>I know about settings like --proxy-ntlm in curl, but this still requires an ntlm username and password.</p>