Re: more on thedj.com

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Michael Pelletier wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > TheDJ uses RealAudio, which requires their own proprietary proxy.
> > > No, it will not work with Squid, and never will until RealAudio
> > > is willing to release the details of their data stream. You will
> > > need to purchase a copy of the RealAudio proxy if you wish to
> > > allow your users to stream audio through your network.
> >
> > But realaudio doesnt use port 80, and I only proxy port 80. So shouldnt
> > that data just go right thru?
>
> New versions of RealAudio can use HTTP to request RA clips from sites, but
> the RealAudio application-layer proxy operates on port 1090. It was built
> using the TIS firewall toolkit, and is freely distributable. Since it
> sounds like what you're saying is that you have full routing out to the
> internet, it sounds like you should just turn off proxy functionality for
> theDJ player. No?
>

Thats the thing. Using the dj player, with proxy turned off in the dj
player, it still doesnt work. DJ player sends requests to port 80, which
get transparently redirected to port 2138 of the squid. And it doesnt
work. Everything else has always worked fine, I just don't know what is
so special about this dj program that it breaks with squid.

> > -Mike
Pelletier. >

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Received on Tue Feb 24 1998 - 13:42:35 MST