[H-GEN] Seti at home

Martin Pool martinp at mincom.com
Mon May 24 00:57:21 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)

Rob Kearey wrote:
> No - you're right there. The problem is that UQnet blocks all port
> 80/443 traffic _except_ for the proxy servers. Hence, any stuff sent out
> from my PC claiming to be for port 80 at it's destination is unrouted
> and vanishes from the ken of man and beast. There's no way of telling
> seti at home to tunnel things throught the caching proxy.

What about if you set $http_proxy before starting seti at home?  That
seemed to work for me, though maybe uqnet wasn't enforcing proxies at
that time.

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