On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:05 PM, dr cs <sproutsnew_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, dr cs wrote:
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>> Please don't full-quote. Remove the quotes from your mail that serve no
>> purpose.
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>> You said "You're supposed to make sure you provide a proxy name that
>>> resolves!""
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>>> How can I make sure / test that the proxy name is being resolve??
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>> "nslookup [name]" is the standard way, and it even works in windows.
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>> When I test my application on my Windows machine, it works perfectly
>>> fine.
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>> And they use the same proxy name and the same DNS server?
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> Yes. My Linux box is a Virtual machine on my Windows machine.
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>> The problem, however, exists only when testing on Red Hat Enterprise
>>> Linux 4.
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>> I did telnet, on Linux box, with the proxy and it is successful.
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>> You mean you could "telnet [proxy]" and it worked? If so, your libcurl
>> version has a bug or something.
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> Yes.
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>> telnet <proxyIP> <Port>
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> Connected to <proxyIP>
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> I guess it is trying to resolve my host in the first case, and couldn't do
> it! ( Strangely the problem is only on Linux and NOT on windows)
> As a result, it keeps returning couldn't resolve proxy.
> My curl version on windows - 7.18.1
> Curl version on Linux - 7.12.
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> Will this actually make a difference?
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> OR is it some configuration problem??
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I finally got this issue RESOLVED. Chaning the order in which I specify the
parameters ( proxyip, proxyuser, proxypass....) has solved it.
thanks everyone for your time,

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