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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 06:13:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: wget blocked by Microsoft Proxy Server firewall
To: Yu-Jui Lee <yjlee AT go-trinity DOT com DOT tw>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Yu-Jui Lee <yjlee AT go-trinity DOT com DOT tw> wrote:
> Hi,

Hello Yu-Jui Lee,

> 
> I once used Andy Piper's cygwin /usr/local stuff happily until my
> company installed Microsoft Proxy Server as firwall. The ftp.exe and
> telnet.exe of Andy's are all blocked by the firewall but still work
> well within the firewall. On the other hand, the ftp.exe and
> telnet.exe that come with Ms Win98 still work happily through the
> firewall. I'm using Cygwin b20.1
> 
> I strongly suspect that it is the problem of the cygwin environment
> but still cannot pinpoint it. I then got the gnu wget source for
> testing. I compiled wget.exe 2 times with MSVC6 and Cygwin tool chain
> respectively. As I have expected, the cygwin version is always blocked
> by the firewall while the msvc6 version can reach outside with no
> problem. When I traced cygwin version into the source code with gdb, I
> found it is blocked at line 91 of connect.c where the statement is,
> 
>   if (connect (*sock, (struct sockaddr *) &sock_name, sizeof (sock_name)))
>   ...
> 
> I also traced the MSVC6 version that it passed this statement with no
> problem.  I can only reach here and have no idea to investigate
> further. I don't know if it is the cygwin1.dll that makes the proxy
> function incorrect. Actually not only the proxy server is installed at
> the server computer, my PC also installed the WSP (WinSock Proxy)
> client. The WSPWSP.dll is added to \windows\system directory. Anyone
> can help?

I don't know if this will help but there are a new set of header for the w32api
that you can download from
http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/w32api.html.  This set of headers
will replace the existing headers in the current cygwin product.  They are more
complete and up to date.

> 
> Thanks!
> 

You're welcome.

===
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