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Beginner Joined: 06 Sep 2001 Posts: 14 Location: Canada

I am trying to connect to the mud I play from work. My company uses a proxy and I got the
proxy address from the web broswer
it is proxy-canada.network.xxxxx.com
it's a http proxy i believe
so i entered
proxy-canada.network.xxxxx.com
port 3128
under the telnet proxy host/port and
http://proxy-canada.network.xxxxx.com port3128
under the www proxy host/port
proxy in zmud 5.55 (the version i use)
it won't allow to be put in a user name and password (but i don't think i need one)
and i left the default on the telnet command
to %host%port
but when i tried to connect to the mud i get

Connected to host 209.83.132.90

HTTP/1.0 505 PROXY ERROR
Proxy-Connection: Close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</H2>
<HR>
<P>
The following error was encountered:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Unsupported request method.
Only GET,POST,HEAD,PUT,TRACE,DELETE,OPTIONS,CONNECT,PURGE,NETHCMD are supported so far.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
</UL>
</P>

<br clear="all">
<hr noshade size=1>
Generated Tue, 08 Apr 2003 01:49:09 GMT by
(<a href="http://www.cisco.com/">Application and Content Networking System Software 4.2.1</a>)
</BODY></HTML>

Does anyone have any idea what's going on ?
or have a solution ?? any help is greatly apprecieated :) thanks.....connecting to a mud
would help me pass those boring night shifts
hehe

I can't connect to mud in proxy ahhhhhh

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

I believe that you cannot use HTTP proxies to connect to a mud. HTTP proxies are for web pages, and therefore only accept the HTTP commands that it listed in the error message.

Beginner Joined: 06 Sep 2001 Posts: 14 Location: Canada

o man.....any way around it ??

I can't connect to mud in proxy ahhhhhhhh

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

o man.....any way around it ??

I can't connect to mud in proxy ahhhhhhhh

There is if you can make changes to the server, or persuade the techie to make them for you. However, unless you happen to be the boss such actions will likely get you fired.

To connect to a mud via proxy, you'll need to find a telnet proxy.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

Well, you *could* create a local proxy that translates what you type into HTTP messages, sends it through your HTTP proxy to a machine that you have running outside the firewall, which then sends it to the mud...

But I don't know who you would have to kill/bribe for someone to write all that for you...

I did have a way to at least log on to a mud through an HTTP proxy, but I'm not really sure what it was any more. The problem was, once logged on, there was no way to send more commands to the mud without first closing and reestablishing the connection. I connected to the proxy server and sent:

GET mudserver:mudport HTTP/1.0
thingstosend;moretosend;
<blank line here>

I give no guarantees that it will work, though.

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

I should mention that your work has that firewall for a reason, and traffic through the proxy is very likely logged, so only try that if you are certain it won't get you in trouble.

Beginner Joined: 06 Sep 2001 Posts: 14 Location: Canada

Thanks you guys for all the tips :)
guess I ll have more of those lonely nightshift of tetris hahahha

I can't connect to mud in proxy ahhhhhhhh