Re: dselect through a firewall?

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> Wish I knew that back when I was behind the thing :> Anyhow, if I have the
> time I might add an option for those kind of firewalls.. 

I know in my case (ANS Interlock) it didn't work.  And it wasn't for lack
of trying let me tell you!  It asks for a username and
password, and then you have to type quote site <sitename> and then the
remote sites username and password if any. 


> FTP over
> HTTP-Proxy should be a last resort kind of thing anyhow..
> 

Perhaps the best way would just be to integrate Deity with expect or some
such scripting language so people with these oddball setups can work it
out for themselves.

> BTW, anyone have Debain mirrored that can be accessed with a web server?
> 

I do.  But it's behind a firewall. :-(

-- Jaldhar


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