Uniform Proxy Settings
Chuck Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Oct 3 15:16:53 UTC 2008
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:23:13PM +0530, Kulbir Saini wrote:
>> One suggestion to get around this would be to run a proxy on localhost
>> and make all proxy aware applications use that in their default
>> install. This wouldn't actually have to do any caching - just act as a
>> common point at which behaviour could actually be changed without the
>> cooperation of the programs.
>
> This sounds good but some work environments doesn't allow you to run
> proxy on your own machine. e.g. Consider an office env in a
> multinational or a university where running proxy on every single
> machine violates the computer usage policy.
I don't see how it would matter. The proxy would be an internal-only
abstraction of how the system talks to the rest of the net. It
wouldn't be visible or usable from outside the local system.
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