[ijbswa-devel] Help with forwarders: socks specifically

[David S. <da...@at...>]

I've got a configuration problem at work, and I'm thinking that if I can
get it cleared up, I can get another example into the config file and in
the manual.

My situation is this:  I'm in a lab that has shut down port 80 because
of virus scares.  We can get to the web via a socks proxy on port 1080.
Is there a way I can lash ijb and the socks machine together so that 
the web can be surfed, filtered by ijb?

I'm left confused after reading the config file.  My http proxy is myself;
ijb running on 127.0.0.1:8000.  My socks host is somewhere in my company's
network; socks.my.com:1080.  So, I would expect to configure my browser
to use ijb (localhost) as its http proxy (only, no socks) and then set
ijb's config file to say:

  forward-socks4a . socks.my.com:1080 .

but that doesn't seem to work... the browser just hangs on the connect
request to whatever the target domain was.

config suggests the following for a company that has "socks but no
forwarding":

  forward-socks4a . . socks.my.com:1080

but ijb complains that such a config line is invalid.

Am I missing something obvious?  Seems like this would be a pretty
common goal.

- David