At college, most programs can't connect.

Discussion in 'Networking' started by rogiebear, Sep 4, 2008.

  1. rogiebear

    rogiebear

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    so i'm at college. and in order to connect either internet explorer or firefox, i need to go into the connection settings and change it to proxy server with 10.0.0.1 and port 8080. but other programs won't work with those settings. some won't even let you change it to that. so a lot of the tutorials on here are useless to me right now because the terminal and the add/remove programe things don't work. anybody have any ideas? should i just go talk to the network admin at the school?
     
    rogiebear, Sep 4, 2008
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    marcuscthomas

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    There must be a way to configure this thing to use a proxy.

    Try, in the terminal

    export http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:8080/"

    Some programs don't use the http_proxy variable however.

    I installed Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) and set it up to forward all local traffic to my proxy. This works, but I don't like it.
     
    marcuscthomas, Sep 5, 2008
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