It is not a rare case when users go out to the internet from their corporate LAN exclusively via the proxy server based at the only computer connected to the internet. Thus BinkD cannot make a direct connection to the remote node and one must use the proxy server. Proxy servers support was included in versions 0.9.3.https, 0.9.4 and the later ones.
One can use BinkD via a HTTP proxy only if CONNECT host 24554 command is allowed in the proxy server or the CONNECT command is allowed for all remote ports. The command is usually used for the secure HTTP protocol (URLs of the "HTTPS://..." type), it is also known as S-HTTP. Because of that such a proxy is quite often referred as a HTTPS proxy.
If BinkD reports of an authorization error then the necessary command is prohibited in the proxy configuration or it is allowed for the port 443 only (that is inessential for us).
Suppose the connected to the Internet computer has the IP address 192.168.0.1 in its LAN and the proxy server at the computer responds on port 3128. Here is the line in BinkD configuration file necessary for working via the HTTP proxy.
1. A proxy server without user authorization (no login and password are demanded):
proxy 192.168.0.1:3128
2. A proxy server with user authorization (it is necessary to type login and password, e.g. login "user", password "password"):
proxy 192.168.0.1:3128/user/password
3. Microsoft proxy server with NTLM protocol of user authorization (one must be inside a domain). Suppose login is "user", password is "password", the user computer is "host" and the domain name is "ntdomain":
proxy 192.168.0.1:3128/user/password/host/ntdomain
If the proxy server administrator has allowed connection only to some selected ports (usually to port 443) then BinkD reports "Connection rejected by proxy". Here is an example:
31 Mar 16:48:43 [59987] BEGIN, binkd/0.9.3/SOCKS/HTTPS -p BINKD.CFG
31 Mar 16:48:43 [59987] clientmgr started
+ 31 Mar 16:48:43 [40423] call to 2:5000/44@fidonet
31 Mar 16:48:43 [40423] trying 195.209.235.3, port 24554...
31 Mar 16:48:43 [40423] connected to proxy.osu.ru:24554
31 Mar 16:48:44 [40423] Connection rejected by proxy (HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden)
? 31 Mar 16:48:44 [40423] unable to connect: {13} Permission denied
In such a case you may try to use http tunnelling for instance with the help of httport (one can take it at http://www.htthost.com/).
It is not a rare case when users go out to the internet from their corporate LAN exclusively via the proxy server based at the only computer connected to the internet. Thus BinkD cannot make a direct connection to the remote node and one must use the proxy server. Proxy servers support was included in version 0.9.4 and the later ones.
BinkD works with a SOCKS proxy version 4 and 5. The first one does not demand an authorization (no login and password), the second one demands it as a rule.
Suppose the connected to the Internet computer has the IP address 192.168.0.1 in its LAN and the SOCKS server at the computer responds on port 1080. Here is the line in BinkD configuration file necessary for working via the SOCKS proxy.
1. A SOCKS server without user authorization (no login and password are demanded):
socks 192.168.0.1:1080
2. A proxy server with user authorization (it is necessary to type login and password, e.g. login "user", password "password"):
socks 192.168.0.1:1080/user/password
If the proxy server administrator has allowed connection only to some selected ports (usually to port 443) then BinkD reports "Connection rejected by proxy". See example in a chapter See 01.
1. You must configure your modem mailer and tosser for BSO (binkley-style outbound) mode so that all of them including BinkD would have the same inbound directories (and also the same outbound directories). If your mailer can work with AMA (arcmail-attach) only you have to change your mailer.
(This part don't translated, sorry.)
t-mail.ctl:
Address 2:5080/102.1@fidonet
Address 7:1500/102.1@fidonet
BinkStyle_Pack_For All
Busy_Flags_Scan Bink
Busy_Flags_Create Bink
BinkOutbound \ftn\outbound\fidonet
Inbound \ftn\inbound\
InboundUnProtected \ftn\inbound\uncheck\
FileBoxes \ftn\outbound\fboxes\
Security \ftn\t-mail\password.ctl
binkd.cfg:
address 2:5080/102.1@fidonet 7:1500/102.1@fidonet
domain fidonet \\ftn\\outbound\\fidonet 2
inbound \\ftn\\inbound
inbound-nonsecure \\ftn\\inbound\\uncheck
filebox \\ftn\\fboxes
passwords \\ftn\\t-mail\\password.ctl
(This chapter don't translated, sorry.)