proxy for Gnus ?

proxy for Gnus ?

[William Xuuu]

Hi,

Is it possible to set a proxy for Gnus, so that to be able to connect some
foreign newsgroup servers?

thanks.

-- 
William

Re: proxy for Gnus ?

[Maciek Pasternacki]

On Sweetmorn, Chaos 36, 3171 YOLD, William Xuuu wrote:

> Is it possible to set a proxy for Gnus, so that to be able to connect some
> foreign newsgroup servers?

Gnus can use SOCKSv5 with socks.el from w3.  From my .gnus.el:

(require 'socks)
(setq socks-server '("default" "socks.hostname" socks-port 5)
      socks-username "Login"
      socks-password "Password")

(defun nntp-open-socks-stream (buffer)
  (socks-open-network-stream "nntpd" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number))

(setq 
 gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.task.gda.pl"
                           (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-socks-stream))
 gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "Mailbox"
                                       (nnml-directory "~/Mail/")
                                       (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/active")
                                       (nnml-newsgroups-file "~/Mail/newsgroups")
                                       (nnml-use-compressed-files t))
                                 (nntp "internal.news.server.somewhere.in.pl"
                                       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-socks-stream)
                                       (nntp-connection-timeout 5))
                                 (nntp "news.szpieg.gda.pl"
                                       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-socks-stream)
                                       (nntp-connection-timeout 15))
                                 (nntp "news.gmane.org"
                                       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-socks-stream)
                                       (nntp-connection-timeout 10))))

Works well with usocksd running from user account on proxying server.

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proxy for Gnus ?

[william_xuuu]

Hi, there.

Now the only way for me to connect the net is throught a http proxy.
How do I tell Gnus, and all ftp/telnet/ssh session to go throught it
either ?

thanks.

Re: proxy for Gnus ?

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, May 18 2005, william_xuuu@163.com wrote:

> Now the only way for me to connect the net is throught a http proxy.
> How do I tell Gnus, and all ftp/telnet/ssh session to go throught it
> either ?

I never tried, but it should be possible, see (info "(gnus)Indirect
Functions") and (info "(gnus)Example Methods") ...

,----[ (info "(gnus)Example Methods") ]
|    If you are behind a firewall and only have access to the NNTP server
| from the firewall machine, you can instruct Gnus to `rlogin' on the
| firewall machine and telnet from there to the NNTP server.  Doing this
| can be rather fiddly, but your virtual server definition should
| probably look something like this:
| 
|      (nntp "firewall"
|            (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet)
|            (nntp-via-address "the.firewall.machine")
|            (nntp-address "the.real.nntp.host")
|            (nntp-end-of-line "\n"))
| [...]
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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