Sounds like your proxy provides an automatic configuration file.
Try to open that file and read what it says. The file should be plain text.
Or you can always ask your network administrator for the details.
Johan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ganasen Gounden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Orion 1.5.0? Where do you download it from?
> Thanks for all many response. What a great community!!!
>
> Unfortunately for me "java -jar autoupdate.jar" does not work because I
am behind a firewall.
> Orionsupport.com says that if you're behind a proxy, as many users are,
you'll need to specify some extra parameters, as so:
>
> java -DproxyHost=[proxy name] -DproxyPort=[proxy port] -jar autoupdate.jar
>
> My firewall address in ie5.5 is http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac.
> However I am not quite sure of how to specify the [proxname] and [proxy
port].
>
> I tried a few commands as follows but failed.
> java -DproxyHost=http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac -DproxyPort=8000 -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=[http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac] -DproxyPort=[8000] -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=[http://firewall:8000/proxy.pac] -DproxyPort=[80] -jar
autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=http:firewall -DproxyPort=8000 -jar autoupdate.jar
> java -DproxyHost=firewall -DproxyPort=80 -jar autoupdate.jar
> etc
>
> Could someone please give me the correct format.
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Gan Gounden
> City of Cape Town
> Ph (021) 400-2174
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>
>
>
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