Note about proxy authentication and SOCKS.

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index cc339c3..b2575bf 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -228,6 +228,19 @@ rsyncd over ssh
 
   There are already some patches to do this.
 
+proxy authentication
+
+  Allow RSYNC_PROXY to be http://user:pass@proxy.foo:3128/, and do
+  HTTP Basic Proxy-Authentication.  
+
+  Multiple schemes are possible, up to and including the insanity that
+  is NTLM, but Basic probably covers most cases.
+
+SOCKS
+
+  Add --with-socks, and then perhaps a command-line option to put them
+  on or off.  This might be more reliable than LD_PRELOAD hacks.
+
 PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Win32