Re: How to disable listening port randomisation for the test servers

Fabian Keil via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote on 2025-08-06 at 13:54:26:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, Fabian Keil via curl-library wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas on how to best achieve the desired effect now?
> 
> I can't say I have any particularly good option. That's not something we have 
> cared about. Why is this desired for those users, what's the use case?

There are tests where Privoxy is supposed to forward the request
from curl to a socks [0] or http proxy [1].

The destination address is fixed in Privoxy's configuration
files so if the port gets randomised Privoxy will fail to reach
it.

Fabian

[0] <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=tree;f=tests/cts/forward-to-socks-proxy;hb=HEAD>
[1] <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=tree;f=tests/cts/forward-to-http-proxy;hb=HEAD>
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