Re: TkGnats Proxy Problems

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dalius Gilvydis wrote:

> I have a TkGnats problem-
> 
> I'm attempting to access a gnats database using TkGnats.  The problem is 
> that I have to go through a proxy server to get out of the intranet to 
> reach the Gnats databse that is located elsewhere.  I can access it using 
> Gnatsweb (because browsers have an easy way of setting proxy password 
> configurations), but I'm having trouble figuring out a way to do it with 
> TkGnats.  Has anybody ever encountered this problem before?  If so, could 
> you please let me know where in the TkGnats configuration files could I 
> enter proxy information?  Is TkGnats capable of handling proxy issues?  Help!

There's no proxy support in TkGnats. It might be easy to add, if I knew
how to do it. TkGnats opens a socket to gnatsd, and is immediately greeted
with the same prompt that you get when you telnet to gnatsd. What happens
when there is a proxy? Can you telnet through the proxy like this:

timshel:~$ telnet localhost 1529
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 timshel GNATS server 3.113 ready.

What I'm asking is: 

Is there a dialog/handshaking that goes on, or do you give extra
parameters to the socket open command or what? Do you open a socket to the
proxy server, and then somehow ask it to open a socket to gnatsd?

...RickM...