Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:44:13 -0700 From: Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>(by way of Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automatic detection of a proxy server Message-ID: <200207011444.13443.loki_bsd@cox.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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