On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 06:06, Narayana Pattipati wrote: > I am trying to provide Proxy support for Gdict. There are two > ways of providing proxy support for this application. > a) Provide HTTP proxy support. But the server dict.org at port > 2628 is not recognising HTTP commands. So http proxy > support is ruled out. www.dict.org provides a form where you can POST your queries. It shoulod be simple, when using http proxy, to do that http request and display the results below, parsed with gtkhtml. > b) The other alternative left is providing SOCKS proxy support. > I can think of two problems with this. One problem is for > socksification, user needs to use socks library, which is not > free software. Another problem is many users may not have > access to a SOCKS proxy. > If SOCKS proxy is implemented, some users with SOCKS proxy access > will be benefitted. But they need to have socks library for using > this feature. > Will the community accept the socksified Gdict code which works > only if socks library support is installed(which is not a free > software).?? huh? doesn't gnet (GPL, ie, Free Software) have socks support? I think it does, so I wouldn't find it honorable to use a gdict depending on non Free libs. Good luck with a) which is quite feasible. Cheers, -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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