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" :-)
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