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DasFox
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Sabnzb & HTTP Proxy?

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I've read some posts that have been made going back a few years over this subject and one post showed people getting a proxy to work by editing some of the files in sabnzbd I believe...

So can this be done and if so can we expect to see a GUI option in Sabnzbd to connect through a HTTP Proxy?

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Re: Sabnzb & HTTP Proxy?

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You mean NNTP downloading over a HTTP proxy?
Not going to happen, there are just too many proxy variants in the world and
it would be impossible to test them.
What's the use case?
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Re: Sabnzb & HTTP Proxy?

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I did make the title of the post HTTP, but I'm also referring this to the fact that you can use OpenVPN and have VPN types of proxy you can use, which I believe follow as a type of HTTP proxy, at least in the respect to you add them into any applicatiion that can use an HTTP proxy in the same way to get them to work...

So I don't mean this support simply for people wanting to jump out there and grab these supposed Open Proxies, which I'm sure people will try and use, but for people that have legtimate proxies off a VPN service as well that provide VPN proxies...

Getting to your questions now...

Yes, like in uTorrents as an example you can add in a HTTP proxy to download over, through...

What do you mean to many proxy variants, what does this have to do with this? Can NNTP support a HTTP Proxy being used?

Use Case; Privacy, Protection, Anonymity, Hidinng One's True IP, etc...

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Re: Sabnzb & HTTP Proxy?

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A vpn is not a (http) proxy. Connecting to an nntp server via a vpn does not require any changes in sab and works fine as is. All of "Privacy, Protection, Anonymity, Hidinng One's True IP, etc.." can be achieved by using a vpn if one feels the need.

Makes you wonder if there's a real life use case for usenet over http proxies, other than abuse of open proxies or outright stupidity like downloading from corporate (or similarly restricted) networks. Free hint: the user doing the latter is all but anonymous for the (local) network admin!
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Re: Sabnzb & HTTP Proxy?

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jcfp wrote:A vpn is not a (http) proxy. Connecting to an nntp server via a vpn does not require any changes in sab and works fine as is. All of "Privacy, Protection, Anonymity, Hidinng One's True IP, etc.." can be achieved by using a vpn if one feels the need.

Makes you wonder if there's a real life use case for usenet over http proxies, other than abuse of open proxies or outright stupidity like downloading from corporate (or similarly restricted) networks. Free hint: the user doing the latter is all but anonymous for the (local) network admin!
I know what a VPN is but OpenVPN can be setup to run like an HTTP proxy, through the proxy settings of an applicaiton you choose...
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