Bug #10235 Add a "protocol" choice to the connection box

• Submitted: 28 Apr 2005 10:39
• Modified: 10 May 2005 13:53
• Reporter: Guillaume Plessis
• Status: Not a Bug
• Category: MySQL Administrator
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[28 Apr 2005 10:39] Guillaume Plessis

Description:
It would be very useful to add a protocol  choice list in the connection box. Something equivalent to the --protocol option of the command line client.

An example :
I'm using ssh tunnels to connect to remote mysql servers :

ssh -L  3306:localhost:3306 remotebox

connecting to localhost with the command line client is possible, because you can tell to use a tcp connection instead of a socket one.

With MySQL administrator, connecting to localhost always use a socket file (that is not present because of the ssh tunnel). Adding a protocol choice list in the connection box would overwrite this behaviour and would allow connection through ssh tunnels.

How to repeat:
can always be reported

Suggested fix:
Add a "protocol" choice to the connection box

[10 May 2005 11:30] Guillaume Plessis

This problem can be resolved by using "127.0.0.1" as hostname instead of the "localhost" keyword in the connection box.

Sorry for the buzz.