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Re: RES: Before Firewall


Chris Taylor wrote:

> Each application needs to be made aware of the proxy. At present, I
> believe I am correct in saying that *nix lacks a centralised method of
> configuring the system for a proxy (squid in transparent mode with an

You can actually try setting the environment variable "http_proxy"
(lower case) which should be recognised by many apps.  However, if his
proxy requires NTLM authentication then that is a capability that few
programs will have.  It's a proprietary and undocumented protocol, and
is only supported via reverse engineering.

Brian

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