on 31/01/04 08:54, Kurt Seemann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Heath, etal. > > Two things, > > ONE: > I have noticed that since updating to authoxy 3, both on Panther 10.3.2 and > Jaguar 10.2.8, some odd things happen. In Jaguar, Authoxy 3, when the > daemon in running (127.0.0.1) it too often loses its port dropping to > 'unknown'. This seems to cause failure to access the net, in my case via > system prefs>softwareupdates. I noticed if I turn authoxy off then on > again, it correctly establishes the port (8080) and I can then successfully > execute the SWUpdate function. However, in Panther, using Authoxy 3.0, I > seem to be able to do the SWUpdate, even when port unknown is shown. Is > this issue known? I am thinking I may need to go back to v2.3 of authoxy > for jaguar10.2.8. ??? > > TWO: > I know I have mentioned it before, but my university technicians won't budge > on the issue that our autoproxy script is correctly written and functioning > just fine, eventhough its not compatible with Macs (perceived as another > weak feature of macs I think). One technician reckons Mozilla and an old > netscape version used to handle *.cgi autoproxy scripts, but that now both > don't either on Macs. We use the following script: > <http://config.scu.edu.au/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi> > > The position is that the *.cgi script is working just fine, they see no > reason to move to *.pac. > > What is the difference between a *.pac and *.cgi auto proxy anyway? > Can Authoxy be tweaked to specifically accommodate a *.cgi autoproxy script > and/or a *.cgi autoproxy script somehow? > > Many thanks > > Kurt >
I think there are some cosmetic issues with Authoxy 3, the port number being one of them. But, this has been present for a long time. When you open Authoxy pref pane *after* the daemon is running, it always report "unknown" port number... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
