On 25 Jan 1996, Paul Scheffer wrote:
> We've got TIS running on a PC running 386BSD. Everything is working well, but
> there are still a couple of questions I need advice or answers on.
>
> 1) I know you can tunnel NNTP using plug-gw, but rather than running a local
> news server, we would rather just read news through the firewall (using
> something like Netscape). At the moment we get a host not found when we enter
> the address of the News host. Is there anyone that has sorted this out?
You should be giving Netscape the hostname of your proxy server as the
name of the News server. Then, as long as you have plug-gw set up
correctly (in netperm-table), plug-gw should simply take your news
requests and pass them along to the external server. I do notice one
problem though: when Netscape is done downloading the active file
(basically a LIST command, apparently) I get an error message from
Netscape, something about "an error occured on the server, please contact
your administrator..." However, I can continue to read news without
trouble.
> 2) The Proxy server for HHTP is causing a few problems. The most ackward is
> that sometimes the HTML is passed straight back as HTML text (the same result
> as viewing the source). This mainly occurs when you access Netscape's default
> searce engine. Any way around this? (rather than using another search engine)
It seems as though there are a few problems with the http-gw that is
distributed with the toolkit. There is a newer version of http-gw in the
patches subdirectory on TIS' server; get it, compile it, use it: it solved
my problems (specifically ftp thru http-gw).
Chris Woods Systems Administrator
cjwoods @
paladin .
com Paladin Computing Solutions
617-273-4226 http://www.paladin.com
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