[Psi-devel] socks4(a) support

[lilliput Fab]

I agree, I had the same pb as Matthias, back a year ago I could not
use psi because of that.
The socksv4 protocol is really simple and should not be more difficult
than the HTTP  proxy. And as you said socksv4 is an old protocol ..
and unfortunatly over used out there.

It is not *THE* killer functionnality but it will allow psi to be 4x4
on all the network.

Fabien

On 11/8/06, matthias sweertvaegher <gmatti3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:27:40 +0100, Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > can you give a compelling reason to add support for an older version
> > of a protocol for which we already support?  doesn't make sense to me.
>
> a v5 client is not downwards compatible. It's not because you support v5
> that
> people _stuck_ with a v4 server are helped out. On a lot of intranets there
> is still only a socks4 server available. Since most of the times there
> is a strict policy, you as small user can't convince a company to upgrade
> to another socks server. On the forum I have seen similar requests for
> socks4 support. Most users don't complain, but use another client instead.
> That's what I did actually. At work I use Gaim, at home Psi. But I guess
> most users would choose to go with one app and stick with for example Gaim.
>
> btw, this was after I tried the HTTP Connect which demands the
> jabberserver to set its ports to allowed ports by the web proxy (being
> only 80 and 443 for example!). Most of the times, you don't have the luxury
> of changing the ports of a jabber server ;) Even then, it's problematic.
>
> I believe, if you want people to use your client, you can't make them
> install an external socksclient. It's like releasing a web browser
> without proxy support.
>
> Why limit the choices? Why scare off potential new users? It's not
> that Psi would get bloated by this really small addition..
>
> Other clients support it too. And the reason they support it, is not
> because socks v5 did not exist at that time ;)
>
> I hope it makes a little bit more sense to you now? :)
>
> greets
> matthias
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