Hi Robin, It would be great if you could fix this ( http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-822) at the same time. I use SL through an authenticated web proxy and apart from that issue it works great.
Scruffy On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Robin Cornelius <robin.cornel...@gmail.com>wrote: > As mentioned at Oz's OH yesterday, I would like to try to finish off > the Socks 5 proxy work in the sprint about to start, my repository can > be found at > > https://bitbucket.org/robincornelius/viewer-development-vwr-20801 > > It is a few days out of date, and I will address that ASAP, but I am > more concerned with the functionality of the core feature at this > immediate stage to make sure it does what it says on the tin for > everyone else. I've compiled on all 3 platforms ok but I've only > tested currently on windows as my other boxes are having issues > running the viewer (for various off topic reasons that i'm fixing when > i get time) > > I started a test plan (also incomplete/outof date currently) > > https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1LM1EjS_RFzgR_3nkDkrpM8NMBuQaeJo7CDbp21fCE_Q&hl=en&authkey=CIjDl9sB > > The proxy supports the same feature set as the original implementation > in Snowglobe 1.X, that is http traffic can be sent to a http proxy > (web proxy setting) independent of the UDP trafic being sent to a > socks 5 proxy. This provides combinations that allow > http-texture/asset to be sent via squids (with appropriate store > rewrite rule) to cache textures/assets. Access to these extra modes > can be achieved by clicking the tool icon to the side of the socks > proxy address/port field on preferences/network > > I believe this feature is a partial answer to the story "As a > Business User, I am sometimes unable to access SL at all from behind > my company firewall. How do I work around this?" on the back log, > clearly this only provides one method to work from behind a firewall > and currently it does not address Voice at all. It is possible to > proxy voice via socks 5 as well, but this requires other modifications > that are outside the scope of this jira/feature, but is something I > have done a functional proof of concept test on, i just need to find a > clean solution that is acceptable and easy to use. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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