[wplug] A question about proxy servers

[Terence J. Golightly]

On 09/07/2010 09:21 AM, Andrew Fisk wrote:
> if you are trying a "normal" web page you would need to configure
> http_proxy not https. I think that the fact that you can connect from an
> xterm session tells you that the proxy server is doing it's thing.
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> try http://blog.vinodsingh.com/2008/09/proxy-setting-on-linux.html.
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> Andy
> Spitfire Computer Services
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> Phone (412) 749-0162
> andy at spitcomp.com <mailto:andy at spitcomp.com>
> www.spitcomp.com <http://www.spitcomp.com>
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>Whack!

Thanks for your reply Andy.

Yeah I did set the http_proxy variable as per the instructions on the 
chrome unix/linux proxy page.  I still couldn't get through.  I did not 
however set the ftp_proxy.  Should that matter?  I was just trying to do 
some web browsing.

Terry