Re: Internet Explorer 0day

[Joachim Schipper <j.schipper () math uu nl>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:15:50AM -0600, nocfed wrote:
> > > Mozilla isn't any better these days. Let's all
> > > improve on netcat!
> >
> > Well, OpenBSD's has an option to work via HTTP proxies in the upcoming
> > 3.9 release... ;-)
> >
> >                 Joachim
>
> HUH?
>
> You mean like when they added basic HTTP CONNECT back in October of 2004?
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/socks.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&f=h
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/plus37.html
> "Add support for the HTTP proxy CONNECT method to nc(1)."
>
> Has had SOCKS4/5 for quite a while before that.
>
> Anyways, ditch netcat and use nmap-ncat
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap-ncat/

No, as Rembrandt pointed out, more precisely - it can do authenticated
HTTP proxying.

Anyway, all this just leads to lynx... which is, BTW, quite useful.

                Joachim

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