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Network proxies and internet access via AirPort Internet
Not so much a hint as a gotcha. For reasons too dull to explain now, I have defined a web proxy on port 8080 for my "Automatic" network location. All was fine and dandy until I tried to access, via Safari, any sites locally hosted on my iBook while I was connected to the Internet via Airport. All I got was a Connection Refused page.

After a little head scratching, I realised that I needed to enter the loopback address and Rendezvous name of my iBook into the "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains" section of the "Proxies" dialog (i.e. 127.0.0.1 and ibook.local for my set-up).
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Network proxies and bypassing the local network adresses
Authored by: rvamerongen on Mar 18, '03 01:53:49PM

Hi

I have a question about this.

I use this for for many years but if you have more then one host on your network and you want to bypass all the local network 10 adresses, how do you do this? I thought that the * was the replacing character but this isnt working like under windows - 10.0.192.* to bypass 10.0.192.0 - 10.0.192.254 isnt working for me. Someone an idea?

thnx



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Network proxies and bypassing the local network adresses
Authored by: afortuno on Jul 29, '03 10:23:31AM

I've had the same exact problem and its driving me crazy! The length of my bypass proxy list looks like Collen Farrel's black book. All I want to do is bypass addresses for a specific domain or IP range. You're right, in WinX 192.168.0.X will clear you for everything in that X range.

This is definitly a bug!

If anyone finds a resolution, let me know.

A$

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Regards,
Adam



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not quite "zeroconf"....
Authored by: awk on Mar 18, '03 03:51:07PM

I actually sent feedback to report this as a bug, since it affects all Rendezvous URLs. It doesn't make a lot of sense to enter each host into the proxy exceptions since this is supposed to be "zero config" networking.

I suppose the proxy could be configured to work with these addresses but that means it has to be on the same network as the clients.

Also, the OS sometimes refers to the Rendezvous URls with a dot on the end (i.e., "my-machine.local."), and if you don't have this variation in your config it doesn't catch it.

Additionally I noticed that Safari doesn't treat the exceptions as subdomains, so if I have 10 different web server addresses in my local ".my.lan" domain (which I do, for testing purposes) I have to enter each one separately..

minor annoyances...



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Network proxies and internet access via AirPort
Authored by: iordonez on Mar 18, '03 04:43:48PM

total proxy bug. Very annoying for schools with limited bandwidth and
Proxy server outside of LAN. Proxy bypass is undocumented and
featureless. so Far I have found that to bypass a local domain you need
to (for the domain srcs.org) add bypass for .srcs.org most anything else
will not work. As for bypassing local address' your outta luck. the ONLY
way to exclude a local address is to manually type it. But some
programs (iChat!) will not respond to even that. Try sending a file to a
Rendevous user when your behind a proxy. CRASH. It would be great if
apple created a help file explaining the way to configure this and also
allow 10.*, *.srcs.org, 10.1*, etc. in both the system AND their
applications that access any http ports. Submit a bug at http://
developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ the more reports to quicker the fix.



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