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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2015-11-27 11:54:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2015-11-27 11:58:30 +0100 |
| commit | 05ac2dc5c77fa4b87e98508c1b15fd254806b1ce (patch) | |
| tree | e78eedd74ed733ad1eb207f4268f1a0c4a556de0 /doc | |
| parent | 18ca1593c62d62bb72b4e7e14347cd221c187138 (diff) | |
| download | libassuan-05ac2dc5c77fa4b87e98508c1b15fd254806b1ce.tar.gz | |
New feature to test for SOCKS5 proxy availability.
* src/assuan-socket.c (socks5_connect): Add special treatment for
empty hostnames.
(_assuan_sock_connect_byname): Add feature to test for proxy
availibility.
* tests/socks5.c (main): Add option --have-proxy.
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/assuan.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/assuan.texi b/doc/assuan.texi index 131ffc1..aae3de7 100644 --- a/doc/assuan.texi +++ b/doc/assuan.texi @@ -1995,7 +1995,12 @@ current implementation requires that @var{flags} has either new TCP STREAM socket is returned; on error @code{ASSUAN_INVALID_FD} and ERRNO set. If @var{credentials} is not @code{NULL}, it is a string used for password based SOCKS authentication. Username and -password are separated by a colon. @var{reserved} should be 0. +password are separated by a colon. @var{reserved} should be 0. To +test whether the proxy is available @var{host} and @var{port} may be +given as NULL/0: If the proxy is available the function returns a +valid socket which is in the state after credentials sub-negotiation. +The caller now knows that the SOCKS proxy is available and has been +authenticated; normally the caller closes the socket then. @end deftypefun |