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 > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
