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Re: url issues
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Dave Love |
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Re: url issues |
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:34:52 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > What does socks.el do?
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> It's an interface to SOCKS, which provides some sort of firewall
> gateway. I presume it could also be directly relevant to ange-ftp.
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> Does that involve encryption?
Well RFC 1928 says it must support GSSAPI, so it may. I still don't
understand why it's relevant.
> If so, does socks.el get involved in the encryption?
It says GSSAPI authentication isn't implemented.
<URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/w3/w3/lisp/socks.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>
I guess.