Most of the softwares usually use the system settings [and the configured
system proxy] for connecting to the internet.

Few things that may not work would be torrent, teamviewer and other
application that may use non-HTTP ports [assuming this is a http proxy]

Dipankar

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am behind proxy server
> why all proprietary software works well without changing any port or any
> setting?
> for example google talk, yahoo messenger, skype, teamviewer etc works
> well. at max I have to set manual proxy only.
>
> but on the other hand to make pidgin or other open source alternate work I
> have to change default port etc.
> why it happens? which port proprietary software do use so they work
> anywhere in all situations without changing any setting except only proxy
> setting?
>
> thank you
>
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