Re: lynx-dev socks support

[Philip Webb]

sorry, i got CY's e-address wrong the 1st time (see header).
 
980914 Brian Lloyd-Newberry wrote:
> Just wanted you all to know that I had to hack the socks code a little
> to work with version 5 where the Rconnect function
> (and the family of other sockified functions for that matter)
> was renamed to SOCKSconnect.
> If you want my diffs I can mail them to you.
> P.S. Thanks for a great product.
 
980804 Chen Yantao (Institute of Software, Academia Sinica of China,
  PostBox 8718, Beijing PRC) wrote:
> I am just compile an lynx2.8 on a solaris 2.5 SUN 1000e system,
> and I must access the internet through a socks5 proxy
> (with username and password),
> but it always shows "Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host".

should BLN & CY perhaps be talking to one another?
CY's is one of many unanswered queries since c 980801:
is this of more general interest to other Lynx volunteers?

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