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Re: How to disable listening port randomisation for the test servers

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From: Fabian Keil via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:48:40 +0200

Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote on 2025-08-06 at 13:54:26:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, Fabian Keil via curl-library wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on how to best achieve the desired effect now?
>
> I can't say I have any particularly good option. That's not something we have
> cared about. Why is this desired for those users, what's the use case?

There are tests where Privoxy is supposed to forward the request
from curl to a socks [0] or http proxy [1].

The destination address is fixed in Privoxy's configuration
files so if the port gets randomised Privoxy will fail to reach
it.

Fabian

[0] <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=tree;f=tests/cts/forward-to-socks-proxy;hb=HEAD>
[1] <https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=tree;f=tests/cts/forward-to-http-proxy;hb=HEAD>

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