Re: Using grip through a proxy server

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:41:48PM +0100, Michael Mauch wrote:
> Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone using grip behind a proxy able to do freedb lookups? The
> > recent releases of grip don't seem to be able to do freedb lookups from
> > behind a proxy anymore. I checked my proxy logs and snooped the network
> > and the requests don't even get to the proxy server.
> > 
> > If you are able to do freedb lookups from behind a proxy how are you
> > configuring grip to do so?
> 
> I'm usually not behind a proxy with grip, but I use wwwoffle for web
> browsing. I tried grip over the proxy and I can see a few requests and
> answers in wwwoffle's spool.
> 
> I only set "Use proxy server", and "Proxy server" localhost and "Proxy
> port" 8080, no username or password.
> 
> As the proxy server is on the same machine as grip, grip still could use
> a direct connection, though. I have no idea how I could filter grip's
> (possible) requests on port 80, but still let wwwoffle's requests pass
> through.
> 
> Trying with "strace -e network -f -o grip.strace grip", I can only find
> connections to 127.0.0.1.
> 
> This is with grip 3.3.1. In response to your question a week ago,
> somebody else also reported that grip works fine behind a proxy.
> 
> Did you check simple things like "the proxy server's name changed"? 
> Is it perhaps an IPv6 issue (bad configuration etc.)?
> Can you try with strace and see to which host it wants to connect?
> 
> Regards...
> 		Michael

Michael,

Thanks for your response. I had been using the same configuration as I
was using with an older version of grip. I installed version 3.3.1 and
it know works with the proxy. It must have been a bug with 3.2.0 which
was what I was using.

Frank

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