Re: proxying freedb lookups through squid

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 07:45:14PM +1100, Christopher Brittain wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Frank Pittel <fwp-JBqMug/[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >Is anyone here using grip on a machine sitting behind a squid proxy
> >server?
> >The reason I'm asking is that I have squid sitting on my firewall as a
> >caching
> >proxy server. When grip tries to do a freedb lookup it never gets a
> >response.
> 
> 
> I'm using Grip 3.3.1 through a Squid proxy without any problems.  I know
> that older versions of Grip have had problems with using a proxy.
> Specifically 3.2.0 needed a patch to be able to use a proxy.
> 
> A bit of leg work on my firewall shows that the request never gets to the
> >proxy server. I verified this using tcpdump. I used to be able to use grip
> >with my proxy server with an older version of grip. Does anyone have any
> >ideas
> >of where to go from here?
> 
> 
> With Grip 3.2.0 I had exactly the  symptoms you describe here, until I
> patched Grip.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. Somehow this mail got mixed up with
all the email I get everyday. I checked and in fact I was using version 3.2.0.
I downloaded version 3.3.1 and the freedb lookups are working again. Now
it's time for me to get to work and rip the 200 or so cds I haven't ripped
yet.

Thanks for you help!!


Frank

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