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Re: nc(1) HTTP proxy patch

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Old 02-22-2008, 12:33 PM
Damien Miller
 
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Default Re: nc(1) HTTP proxy patch

Ray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a patch to nc(1) to stop it from trying to resolve an IP
> when using an HTTP proxy. (It never uses the IP anyway.) Without
> this patch, if there are no DNS servers nc will die with `nc: cannot
> decode address "host.example.com"' error.
>
> This change makes nc almost a complete replacement for corkscrew,
> and I've included an example for the nc manpage.
>
> Flames?


No flames The socks.c diff was committed. We didn't use your patch
for nc.1, but referred to ProxyCommand there and added an example to
ssh_config.5.

Thanks!

-d

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