-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've not checked a more recent release but wget-1.10.2 has references to | both a; '--with-sox' and a '--with-socks' configure option but neither do | anything AFAICT.
You mean in utils/README, right? Yeah, but that's talking about the special "socksified wget", not the official wget-1.10.2 sources, I think (though it doesn't at all make that clear). |> After downloading the source code for socks-server and reading a file | | I think only the socks client S/W is needed to built a sockified wget. Right. The socks client, as I understand it, is available with the whole socks-server package. |> called How-to-SOCKSify, it appears that socksification consists of |> adding an initialization-function call to the top of main(), Passing -D |> flags to gcc to #define connect=Rconnect, etc, and linking with |> libsocks. If that's what the socksified Wget is/was, then it would |> appear that the socksified Wget can _only_ communicate with a SOCKS |> server, and can't make normal connections anymore. |> |> Hrvoje, Mauro, is this accurate? | | This sounds like the old Socks 4 sockification procedure. Yeah, it is. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHqgSm7M8hyUobTrERAghRAKCC9blByPJi6TpxBvRWYymCR+uNbACeJIGq Uf8pMntGPkXQYSafthTdW9A= =XN25 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
