[H-GEN] Maybe some clues.

David Jericho davidj at amh.com.au
Wed Apr 7 19:11:14 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Jericho <davidj at amh.com.au>)

On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:43:27AM +1000, Lance wrote:
> All works fine , ftp, www, etc etc. But for ICQ to work I need a 
> socks connection. I am running Squid and thought it was the same 
> as socks. Now the question is. Is Squid and socks the same thing. 
> ( a proxy server } or do I have to run them both. 

Socks is an different proxy method. I'm not 100% what you're wanting
to do with socks and ICQ, but you can get socks clients and servers
from socks.nec.com (NEC releases it - double check the url). 
Squid is really only for web browsers. Socks does the rest.

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David Jericho
          

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