Re: [Proxytunnel-users] [WEB] Correction to putty proxytunnel invocation

[Julian G. <jd...@po...>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:23:37PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for this really useful webpage!  After a significant amount of
> > debugging, I've now managed to get proxytunnel working with putty.  It
> > turns out that with putty 0.59, using the -v flag to proxyrunnel causes
> > things to break, as putty faithfully tries to send the debugging output to
> > the proxy.  Instead, -q (--quiet) is needed instead, so that there is no
> > noise at all.
> 
> Yes, the -v is used for debugging purposes.
> 
> The problem is that on Windows you have no difference between stdout and 
> stderr, therefor putty cannot make that distinction either. So debug 
> messages are being used as part of the communication.
> 
> Something I planned to do for the Windows build, is to make sure that by 
> default nothing is being send to the output, unless -v is used. (so that 
> -q is the default behaviour on Windows)

So maybe use #ifdef CYGWIN around the relevant bits?

> I changed my website to reflect what you told me, thanks for clarifying :)

Thanks!

   Julian