Previously Adam P. Harris wrote:
> I think there's not really much way we can get them to get netscape to
> respect this; I don't think it's worth it to munge thru the (quite
> volatile) netscape preferences either.
We can use the automatic proxy configuration and point users at that.
We could h
[You (Adrian Bridgett)]
>We should also standardize the environment variables that are used. Once
>again, if the program doesn't support environment variables, tough -
>although of course maintainers are encouraged to "fix" the programs :-)
Maybe just enforce the standards that are kinda sorta al
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 12:15:11PM -0500, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> >> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
> >> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
>> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
>> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there.
>>
>> (This cache is something that was knocked up lo
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
>> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
>> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there.
>>
>> (This cache is something that was knocked up lo
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated
> >HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to specifiy for which hosts it
> >applies to..
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated
>HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to specifiy for which hosts it
>applies to.. You could also do HTTP over socks4/5 but that's a bit sill
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > > We should have a standard place for these things - say:
> > >
> > > /etc/proxies
> > >
> > > http="http://www.proxy.company.com:80";
> > > ftp="ftp://ftpproxy.firewall.com";
> > >
> > > How about making this policy. I realise that mo
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
> > sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in
> > which I set proxy s
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
> sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in
> which I set proxy servers and I'm fed up with it.
>
> We should have a standard place for thes
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 02:26:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 6 Dec, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
> > Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
> > Dirk> proxy server.
> >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dermot John Bradley) wrote on 06.12.97 in <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> > ftp://gated.merit.edu/net-research/gated/gated-R3_5_5.inet.tar.gz
> >
> > (is that the right one ?) and found this in README.license
>
> THe current one is gated-3-
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an
>>ftp script)
>
>Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it
>difficult to
On 6 Dec, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
> Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
> Dirk> proxy server.
>
> Manoj> Would the installer script know how to set these variables?
>
> Do
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> > ftp://gated.merit.edu/net-research/gated/gated-R3_5_5.inet.tar.gz
> >
> > (is that the right one ?) and found this in README.license
>
> THe current one is gated-3-5-8.tar.gz
>
> > Please note the Gated 3.5.5 software can distributed
> > in
Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
Dirk> proxy server.
Manoj> Would the installer script know how to set these variables?
Does it have to ? They are exported from ~/.profile.
Hi,
>>"Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are
Dirk> the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the
Dirk> correct proxy server.
Would the installer script know how to set these variables?
[sorry for the empty mail I just posted, was fighting my keyboard ...]
Craig> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
Craig> installer should:
Craig>
Craig> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or
Craig> an ftp script)
Sten> V
>> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
>> installer should:
>>
>> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an
>> ftp script)
Sten> Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it
Sten> difficult to use standard
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> ftp://gated.merit.edu/net-research/gated/gated-R3_5_5.inet.tar.gz
>
> (is that the right one ?) and found this in README.license
THe current one is gated-3-5-8.tar.gz
> Please note the Gated 3.5.5 software can distributed
> in source or binary for
> note that there are no problems with DOWNLOADING gated sources. The
> weird licensing is only a problem if you want to DISTRIBUTE it. debian
> can't distribute any gated sources because we wont sign the distribution
> license agreement.
I just grabbed a copy of gated from:
ftp://gated.merit.
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Dermot John Bradley wrote:
>
>
> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the installer
> should:
>
> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an
> ftp script)
Very b
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