Re: [Treo] Re: Can only Treo 600s and 650s browse the web?

[Craig Froehle]

It appears that T-Mobile's proxy web server does *not* reformat
anything.  While I could possibly set another proxy within Blazer, I'm
not confident that wouldn't also screw up my ability to get HTTP
content.  Don't know, and frankly, I'm not willing to experiment with
it -- getting T-Mo Internet to work 100% on my Treo wasn't exactly a
smooth process in the first place. :-)


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:41:23 -0500, Wallach, Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Craig, I have T-Mobile too, but unlocked a T600 that I bought from a friend 
> who was using it with AT&T.  I had to manually set the proxy to T-Mobile's 
> server and it took me a while to find it.  It was mentioned on some of 
> T-Mobile's support pages, but not others.  Wait, now that I think of it, I 
> think I remember them saying that it was not being used anymore because 
> basically all web traffic was being proxied by default, so I think you may be 
> right here!  But I wonder if you could simply avoid this by using a 
> third-party proxy server that doesn't actually do any of that reformatting.  
> Then again, this wouldn't give you a real picture of what most T-Mobile 
> customers are seeing...
> 
> Levi Wallach
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> From: Craig Froehle
> Sent: Wed 2/9/05 10:29 AM
> To: treo@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Can only Treo 600s and 650s browse the web?
> 
> Hmm...well, with T-Mobile, I don't see a way to *not* use their proxy,
> so in my case, I *am* forced to get stuff through a proxy server.
> Whether or not it does reformatting is beyond me, but I do know that
> once upon a time, maybe back when Handspring was still around, they
> were the proxy server for Blazer -- the browser was set up for all
> traffic to go through them so they could reformat the pages on the
> fly.  Slow, but things generally looked pretty good even on the small
> screen.
> 
> With that said, I'd much prefer a direct connection and let the
> handheld handle whatever arrives.
> - Craig
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 07:40:19 -0500, Wallach, Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't think that's necessarily True, Craig.  Yes, you CAN use a proxy
> > with Blazer, but you don't have to.  In fact with some carriers, it's
> > not set up that way and they may not even provide such a proxy server
> > for use.  Even if you consider that carriers may be proxying without the
> > user even having to manually set it up in the browser (eg, just
> > automatically proxying all data traffic from your device based on port
> > numbers), I don't think all carriers do this...
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