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Re: Cannot access secured sites from behind firewall

Laurent Daudelin
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:21:17 -0700

on 10/9/01 7:11 PM, Jimmy Grewal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip!]
> I understand your frustration.  For the time being, I would suggest
> manually entering the proxy settings into your Mac rather than using
> automatic configuration.  Most institutions do not change their proxy
> servers very often so doing it manually shouldn't cause you too many
> problems.  If/when Apple adds auto proxy configuration to the Mac OS, IE
> will automatically support it.

Jimmy,

Thanks for replying! Gosh! I wasn't expecting anybody to reply anymore. I
was starting to believe that I am the only one with that problem.

Obviously, I've tried setting the proxy configuration manually and that
works, but only for unsecure sites. From the Netscape automatic proxy
configuration file, it seems that the secure proxy is the same machine than
the normal proxy server. Well, at least it's the same IP. The only thing I
don't know is what is the secure protocol they're using. However, I've tried
"Tunnel" and "SOCKS", the only 2 choices available in MacIE, and both gave
errors. So, it's really like I'm SOL with my Mac here. Even IE for Windows
5.5 has added this automatic proxy configuration, so it's really only IE on
the Mac that is lacking... ::sigh!::

-Laurent.
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