Re: [Fwd: Socks support in CVS]

[Nicolas Catania]

Larry,

The problem is that sockcaps is not free:

http://www.socks.permeo.com/TechnicalResources/SOCKSFAQ/SocksCapFAQ.asp#q0005

cheers

niko

Larry Jones writes:
 > Derek Robert Price writes:
 > > 
 > >   Anyone else have an opinion on or want to handle this?  I haven't 
 > > dealt with SOCKS in 6 years and my knowledge was pretty peripheral back 
 > > then.
 > 
 > It was considered and rejected years ago, just about the time I became a
 > developer.  I had added SOCKS 4/5 detection to configure and
 > corresponding code to CVS.  Jim Kingdon talked me out of committing it
 > since there were existing tools (runsocks and SocksCap) that allowed
 > unmodified clients to run through a SOCKS server.  See the Networking
 > and Security info page (in fact, my original SOCKS 4 patch is still
 > there): <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/infonetsecurity.html>.
 > 
 > -Larry Jones
 > 
 > Oh yeah?  You just wait! -- Calvin

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