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From: Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>(by way of Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>)
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Subject: Re: automatic detection of a proxy server
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:44:13 -0700
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On Monday 01 July 2002 02:07 pm, you wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 01), Brett Rogers said:
> > On Monday 01 July 2002 01:29 pm, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > > A quick way would be to go to a windows box, and go to
> > > http://www2.simflex.com/ip.shtml . Or google for "your ip address i=
s"
> > > and use one of the other sites that do the same thing.  This will t=
ell
> > > you the IP of the proxy, but depending on how your school's network=
 is
> > > set up, it night not help.  They may have a list of IP numbers or M=
AC
> > > addresses that are allowed to use the Internet.
> >
> > Assuming I do get the IP of the proxy server, where would I put it in=
 my
> > configuration files?
>
> These are all I've ever had to set:
>
> HTTP_PROXY=3Dproxyserver:port
> ftp_proxy=3Dhttp://proxyserver:port/
> http_proxy=3Dhttp://proxyserver:port/

Just to make sure, these are all environment variables, correct?

-Brett


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