Re: proxy for Gnus ?

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

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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