From: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:54:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: [OT] Re: Git via a proxy server?
Message-ID: <446B00CE.9000609@vmware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060517083845.GC23642@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 20:56:39 -0700, Sam Song <samlinuxkernel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>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