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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Enabling socks = no internet access
From:       "J. Grant" <jg () jguk ! org>
Date:       2002-06-03 3:43:04
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http://www.imasy.or.jp/~gotoh/ssh/openssh-socks.html

Some backgorund infomation, mabye useful for you

JG

George Staikos wrote:
 > On Friday 31 May 2002 10:24, John Gluck wrote:
 >
 >>Hi
 >>
 >>I just used the auto config thing...
 >>Can you tell me what the NEC Dante stuff is. I must plead some 
ignorance as
 >>far as SOCKS goes.
 >
 >
 >    KDE does not contain SOCKS support internally.  It depends on an 
existing
 > SOCKS installation.  NEC and Dante are two SOCKS clients.  We support 
either
 > of those two.  We might support others by chance if the API is close 
enough.
 > We do not provide a configurator for those clients though.  You must
 > configure them yourself.  Then we will load the proper library when 
network
 > access is required.  If SOCKS is missing, we fall back to non-SOCKS.  If
 > SOCKS is misconfigured, then SOCKS misbehaves and we can do nothing.
 >
 >
 >>If misconfiguring SOCKS can prevent KDE apps from accessing the internet,
 >>may I suggest a warning message in the configurator.
 >
 >
 >   Yes it needs much more work, but we have basics at least.  It's a 
great
 > candidate for anyone who wants to jump in.  I can list exactly what is
 > missing, in detail.
 >



 
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