Hello Thomas Dickey. Thomas Dickey wrote in <20190907195941.c2gqjhnuj2pp44az@prl-debianold-64\ .jexium-island.net>: |On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 08:51:26PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> I was forced to use lynx via SOCKS5 proxy, which i never did |> before. To my surprise that did not work, it needs an additional |> library. That increased the surprise, because all one needs for |> SOCKS5 support, even including the DNS lookup, is to hook |> connect(2) -- that is how i did it, as easy as [1]. And in fact | |That's changed over time - there's no standard/portable implementation |of socks5, and (the last time I looked...) none of the extent versions |corresponded to what lynx worked with long ago :-)
Well.. i do not know about the history of implementations. What i do know is that my implementation is for SOCKS5, which is RFC 1928 from March 1996. It is a nice and small RFC :) |> i became inspired by Gaetan Bisson's usocks-06.c, which can be |> used via $LD_PRELOAD, and which got me going. I will attach it. |> |> Wouldn't it be much nicer if there would be a -socks=[HOST]:PORT |> command line argument and a simple, always compiled in, wrapper |> around connect, just the way i do it (in [1])? | |that's a thought... It would be really nice. When i implemented it i tested via $ ssh -D 10000 USER@HOST $ mailx -Ssocks-proxy-USER@HOST=localhost:10000 But it must be said, when using OpenSSH's -D in a session where firefox bombs its multiple dozens of concurrent connections here i had to restart the ssh twice already today, because of being totally stuck. It might be caused by the weak wireless connectivity that i have, but i am about to ask ssh for what to do. (ControlMaster is in use.) |> Just in case i find time and the mentioned way seems interesting, |> is there somewhere the current development code can be loaded |> from? |> |> [1] https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/tree/src/mx/net-socket.c#n48\ |> 5 | |I put snapshots here, as I make development changes: | | https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots Yes, i know. (But we know this git mirror sometimes lags behind, no, not for lynx in particular but for example vile and mawk i track via this mirror, and just a couple of days ago you seem to have pushed something to mawk with a six months delay. I am not complaining or something, and maybe it had to mature, i did not look. It is just that this mirror lags behind reality sometimes.) |but don't accept pull-requests -- see | | https://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html That i knew too already, but thanks for the link. I am not at github myself, so a pull request would not happen, rather a patch for discussion here on this ML. Note that i hate autotools, this would be very hard. The rest is complicated rather due to the lynx context only. Pretty much so it seems, but i will try. How about -socks5-proxy=HOST -> STRING, parsed the first time we enter HtDoConnect() (or where in main()?), and a special my_connect() as a replacement for the connect(2)s in there, which looks out for the global socks5_proxy (address stored locally in the file after initial parse was successful?), and connects through it instead of the default. It is pretty much a jungle here ;). But does this sound acceptible somehow? Maybe i find some time next Tuesday or Wednesday? Ciao, and a nice Sunday i wish, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
