Re: xchat through proxy?

[Richard Fuchs <dfx@gmx.at>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:32:21PM +1000, astrogav@goconnect.net wrote:
> The proxy (on windows machine) is an extremly simple proxy about 300kb 
> that handles
> http :6588
> ftp  :21
> socks4/5 :1080
> 
> mIRC works with socks on :1080 and if I select proxy on :6588.  xchat 
> doesn't work however I do it.  I'm sorry I don't have the exact error 
> (because I'm forced to use windows for internet) but remember it was to 
> to the effect of 'unable to resolve hostname irc.myircserver.org'.

This is probably because xchat first tries to resolve the hostname, then
connects to the proxy and tells it to connect to an IP. However, this is
only necessary for socks4 if I remember correctly; socks5, HTTP and wingate
(telnet) proxies can do hostnames (I think). I'll try to make a patch for
this in a bit. Still, I recommend that you set up your linux box to use your
proxy's DNS proxy (it should have one), you might need DNS for other things.

Richard
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