How do I use a socks server with cygwin?
Jason Tishler
jason@tishler.net
Thu Dec 20 06:40:00 GMT 2001
Niklas,
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:48:07AM +0100, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> I sit behind a corporate firewall and I'm looking for a way
> to use e.g. cvs from behind the firewall. SOCKS is installed
> on the firewall.
I just experienced this "pleasure" myself when my (small) company was
acquired by a large company.
> [snip]
>
> How would I go about doing this in cygwin?
Hummingbird has a free (as in beer) solution to this problem for Windows
that works for Cygwin too:
http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/install.html
I have been using the above very successfully with the following
applications:
o Netscape Navigator [1]
o Microsoft Internet Explorer [1]
o Netscape Instant Messenger
o CVS (anonymous pserver)
o ssh
o ncftp
o wget
o curl
o dict
[1] However, due to the benefits of a caching web proxy, I recommend
configuring these applications to use such instead of SOCKS, if available.
Jason
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