Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> If I understood Eli correctly, it causes problems when you need to
> upload to a remote site and are routed to your ISP's transparent proxy
> instead.

That definately would cause a problem. But I have never heard of it being
done, I've only heard of upgrading web pages, etc via FTP, which does
not go via the proxy. (not to be confused with FTP over http which would).

Oh well, something new every day. :-)

> If that is what is happening (any packet, not just HTTP GETs, is
> routed to the proxy), this is a rather blunt instrument indeed.

It would be done at the router level, I don't know how refined it can
(or needs to) be.

Geoff.


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