[Freeciv-Dev] Proxy support?

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Coppens writes:
 > Hello,
 > I found the Freeciv website a week ago, and I downloaded the game 
 > imediately. After some playing against the AI (I always lost), I wanted to 
 > play against a human being. Because I'm working on a little homenetwork, 
 > with my computer running under Linux, and my father's computer running Win95 
 > with a ISDN connection and Wingate, I downloaded the Windows-version. Yet 
 > that didn't work. The Windows-game always crashed when it starts the game.
 > So I wanted to play a multiplayer-game over the Internet. Under Windows on 
 > my PC, I'm running a Wingate client, acting as a real dial-up connection for 
 > all programs, so I don't need to set the proxy-server in all my programs. 
 > Under Linux that program doesn't work/exist. When I want a connection under 
 > Linux, I just set the proxysettings in Mozilla to my father's local IP. Yet 
 > when I tried the same action under Freeciv, I was not very happy to discover 
 > that it hadn't some proxy-support.

Write a simple program which simply forwards everything it gets
from the client to the freeciv server and which also forwards things
in the other direction. That's quite simple.

When you don't want to write such a thing, I could try to dig it out.
(I think I have had such a program)

Then enter your father's local IP into the connect dialog (of
civclient). And start that simple program you wrote on your fathers
computer.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade