David de Beer wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I have not been able to find any info on this subject: Is it possible to
> have proxy server forward requests to a socks server i.e. using ssh to
> tunnel to another machine and then poiting the local caching server to
> the port on the local machine (which gets forwarded to another host via)
> 
> something like this:
> 
> ssh -f -p 22 -D 45000 -l myname myfriends.host.net
> <http://myfriends.host.net> -N
> 
> this will create a SOCKS5 server on 127.0.0.1:45000 <http://127.0.0.1:45000>
> 
> Can then one basically ask the caching server to retrieve everything
> through socks server on 127.0.0.1:45000 <http://127.0.0.1:45000> ?

AFAIK the easiest way would be to just use port forwarding (-L).

Another, I think rather nice way, is to use sshfs since that removes the
need for the server to have darcs installed.  Last time I used it there
were some caveats though: http://therning.org/magnus/archives/232

/M

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