From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:55:55 GMT
Subject: Re: cvsimport using proxy?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510051554310.14244@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051005125055.GF4682@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> HTTP proxies are quite simple, you say 
> 
>    1. Connect to Proxy Server.
>    2. Issue CONNECT Host:Port HTTP/1.1<CR><LF>.
>    3. Issue <CR><LF>.
>    4. Wait for a line of response.
>       If it contains HTTP/1.X 200 , the connection is successful.
>    5. Read further lines of response until you receive an empty line.
>    6. Now, you are connected to outside world through a proxy.
>       Do any data exchange you want.

Even simpler is to use transconnect, which transparently uses the proxy by 
intercepting the connect method using LD_PRELOAD.

Ciao,
Dscho