Re: Fwd: [OT] Re: Git via a proxy server?
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> On Tue, 2006-05-16 20:56:39 -0700, Sam Song <samlinuxkernel@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Best to test this is to start 'socket 192.168.40.99
>>>80' from command line and
>>>then type these two lines above, plus one empty
>>>line. You should get back '200
>>>OK', empty line, and then you can start
>>>communicating using git protocol - if
>>>you can do that...
>>
>>I cannot run "socket" and "CONNECT" on Fedora Core 3.
>>It simply told me that no such command. How could I
>>do this task in my case?
>
>
> Well, install some package to have `socket' available? Debian calls
> the packet `socket', too, so I guess Fedora may have something
> similar.
Surprisingly they do not... You should be able to replace 'socket' with
'netcat' - and I believe that netcat/nc package is available for Fedora. For
this purpose they have same command line & behavior.
Petr