Re: gnome-cd & CDDBSlave2 & freedb & proxy

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 19:22, Roddy McColl wrote:
> There is scant info on the use under gnome v2 of the gnome-cd app together
> with CDDBSlave2 so the freedb.freedb.org CDDB site can be used though a
> firewall. 
> I am running RedHat 8.0. I have chosen Preferences->Network Proxy
> and set it to the correct Location and Port and I have select the
> Use HTTP proxy option. I have chosen Extras->Preferences->CDDB and I have
> selected Other server... and set the Hostname to freedb.freedb.org and
> the Port to 80. 
> However, despite these settings, when I play a CD there is no Title or track
> titles shown. I cannot find any docs on how to do this correctly.

CDDBSlave2 does not access the freedb servers through http.
Therefore a) the port should be the port for the freedb server (888
IIRC) and b) it won't use the http proxy because its not http.

iain
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