"test account at dte.net" wrote:
> 2) I would like Swish-E to spider across a proxy server on port 90... Can I make
> a simple source change and recompile, or is this a very hard or impossible thing
> to do (for a Unix beginner anyways).

Did you try searching for the word proxy in the discussion archive?  The
second message has instructions on how to do this:
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/archive/0903.html

moo
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