Hi Robin,
It would be great if you could fix this (
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-822) at the same time. I use SL
through an authenticated web proxy and apart from that issue it works great.
Scruffy
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Robin Cornelius
wrote:
> As mentioned at Oz's OH yesterday, I would like to try to finish off
> the Socks 5 proxy work in the sprint about to start, my repository can
> be found at
>
> https://bitbucket.org/robincornelius/viewer-development-vwr-20801
>
> It is a few days out of date, and I will address that ASAP, but I am
> more concerned with the functionality of the core feature at this
> immediate stage to make sure it does what it says on the tin for
> everyone else. I've compiled on all 3 platforms ok but I've only
> tested currently on windows as my other boxes are having issues
> running the viewer (for various off topic reasons that i'm fixing when
> i get time)
>
> I started a test plan (also incomplete/outof date currently)
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1LM1EjS_RFzgR_3nkDkrpM8NMBuQaeJo7CDbp21fCE_Q&hl=en&authkey=CIjDl9sB
>
> The proxy supports the same feature set as the original implementation
> in Snowglobe 1.X, that is http traffic can be sent to a http proxy
> (web proxy setting) independent of the UDP trafic being sent to a
> socks 5 proxy. This provides combinations that allow
> http-texture/asset to be sent via squids (with appropriate store
> rewrite rule) to cache textures/assets. Access to these extra modes
> can be achieved by clicking the tool icon to the side of the socks
> proxy address/port field on preferences/network
>
> I believe this feature is a partial answer to the story "As a
> Business User, I am sometimes unable to access SL at all from behind
> my company firewall. How do I work around this?" on the back log,
> clearly this only provides one method to work from behind a firewall
> and currently it does not address Voice at all. It is possible to
> proxy voice via socks 5 as well, but this requires other modifications
> that are outside the scope of this jira/feature, but is something I
> have done a functional proof of concept test on, i just need to find a
> clean solution that is acceptable and easy to use.
>
> Robin
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