ODBC Connect with compression=gzip I have a Win98 box with an Access97 mdb file that I can connect to and query via dbiproxy. The dbiproxy command works fine like this: dbiproxy --localport 3333 --logfile "STDERR" but when I use the following: dbiproxy --localport 3333 --logfile "STDERR" --compression gzip and attempt to connect from the Solaris perl script: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use DBI;

my $dsn = "DBI:ODBC:HelpDesk";
my $proxy = "hostname=123.45.678.9;port=2222";
my $compression = "compression=gzip";
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Proxy:$proxy;$compression;dsn=$dsn")
       or die "\ndbiproxy Connect Failed:\n" .
              "   proxy:$proxy;\n   dsn=$dsn\n   $compression\n\n";

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I get the following message on the Solaris: 
DBI->connect(hostname=24.18.31.54;port=2222;compression=gzip;
dsn=DBI:ODBC:HelpDesk) failed: Cannot log in to DBI::ProxyServer:
Unexpected EOF from server at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/RPC/PlClient.pm line 83.

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dbiproxy gives the following message: 
Thu Jul 12 00:27:08 2001 err, Child died: Unexpected EOF from
client at C:/Perl/site/lib/RPC/PlServer.pm line 149.

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These code snippets are pretty much straight out of the O'Reilly book Programming the Perl DBI. I would greatly appreciate any help. I've spent more than 12 hours trying to get this to work. Thanks!

In reply to ODBC Connect with compression=gzip by jlongino

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