[Yum-devel] [PATCH] support socks4/5 proxies

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 18 15:27:18 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 11:13 -0400, Zdenek Pavlas wrote:
> >  Have you tried this?
> 
> I didn't set up a socks proxy

 Yeh, that's what I meant ... was kind of hoping you'd found some random
socks proxy so didn't have to set one up too.

 Worst case ... can you find someone who requested it at some point and
ask them to try a package?

> , but it indeed worked all
> the way down to pycurl setopt(), and curl has connected
> to the proxy=socks4://localhost:3000 URL, and sent some
> binary junk, so it very likely works..

 Yeh, but it's not going to be a fun time if we ship it and someone says
"but it doesn't work for me and we reply, yeh so we never tried and and
don't have the means to do so" :)



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