On Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:04 +0200 martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of > which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And > every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of > different applications in many places. This is of course very > inconvenient. > > What I would like to be able to do is to change the connection > settings regarding a proxy in one place and have it affect all my > applications. The traditional way is through environmental variables, but lot of GUI applications wont respect them, and it wouldn't work smoothly without a reboot anyway. I would suggest you use some kind of local proxy, either a full caching http level proxy like squid, or a simple TCP redirection. You can then point your apps at a localhost port, and just reconfigure the proxy. Take a look at the www and net ports for proxies. A lot of applications support automatic proxy discovery, which might be an alternative. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
