On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:32 AM, [email protected] wrote: > It's worth noting that flash does NOT obey proxy settings in your > browser. Most people fall foul of this when they try to use a generic > proxy to stream video from another country. > > Wrapping the entire browser instance in a proxifier like tsocks or > socksify ought to trap the connect() calls and force flash to use the > proxy.
I think it depends on your browser/etc. I haven't had a problem at all with my Mac using (Safari,Firefox,Chrome) to access Beeb content in this fashion. I can't speak, obviously, to how the Linux flash plugins work, since I only use Linux in a server environment, so maybe that's different.[1] Cheers, D [1] See previous topic of discussion, "It Just Works" :-) _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
