Hello,

I am using wwwoffle (a web-proxy)
  http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
to make my surfing more comfortable.  This works very well with navigator, 
konqueror and IE from a mac.  But with Beonex nothing happens after 
clicking on any link.

So I searched through bugzilla and found the following:

1. mozilla and thus beonex isn't able to get the proxy configuration with
   a remote file "*.pac".  So you have to make a manual proxy configuration.

2. per default, mozilla cannot talk to a proxy that only understands
   http-1.0 (this are for example wwwoffle and junkbuster)
   to make mozilla talk to a http-1.0 proxy you have to add the following
   line to the prefs.js (somewhere under ~/.beonex on Linux)
     user_pref("network.proxy.http.keep-alive", false);

   this bug can be found on bugzilla under:
     http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38488


A third problem occured, but I have no clue for solving it:

If I try to access some local webspace with "http://localhost/", connection 
is refused.  A workaround is to resolve the name localhost manually to 
127.0.0.1 and type:
  http://127.0.0.1

The same goes wrong in the proxy configuration.  So if you have a local 
proxy, you must use the numerical address 127.0.0.1 instead of the symbolic 
name "localhost".  (Or you can use the network name of your computer, so if 
you have a local network and your computer has ip 192.168.0.1 and the name 
"kermit" you can use both the name _and_ the number for accessing it or 
setting it as proxy.  The fault occurs only with "localhost"!)

Hope this helps!
Uwe

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