Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: proxy baffement Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:30:28 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 20 Message-ID: <97kbc7tb747iohd5kk289qorgtjenretmm@4ax.com> References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10030 On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:31:51 -0800, Roedy Green wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >Is there a way to sneak around it in case it is screwing things up? I posted what I have discovered so far at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/proxy.html Another puzzle has come out. Where does Windows get its its notion of what proxy to use from? It is not part of the DHCP protocol. The docs I have found suggest it has to learn by manually configuring an IP. I most definitely did not do that. I wonder if some Google product did it. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com I can't come to bed just yet. Somebody is wrong on the Internet.