From The RT System itself

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08​:46​:31AM +0200, Ulrich Pfeifer wrote​:

"Tom" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@​jhereg.perl.com> writes​:

Tom> You have an interesting idea of a proxy​: it would seem that
Tom> you mean something that can access any port on any address\.
Tom> But many firewalls\, including mine\, preclude such a thing\.
Tom> There is no open\-access system I can proxy against\.  If it's
Tom> not on port 80\, 8080\, or 8000 \(or some such simplistic list\)\,
Tom> web access just doesn't happen\.

I wrote it under the asumption that

    http​://ls6\-www\.informatik\.uni\-dortmund​:1410/ 

is a perfect valid URL and an proxy would go out and resolve any valid
url. At least if the protocol is HTTP.

If someone volunteers to set up the CPAN-WAIT system on port 80
somewere, I'd be happy to help.

Uli

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@iabyn - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'