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iTunes4 shared libraries and proxies
Authored by: grumpy on May 19, '03 09:20:08PM

I submitted a report about proxy problems shortly after iTunes 4 was released but it never appeared here. Possibly because I submitted it as an anonymous user.

Anyway, for myself, even with the appropriate bypass settings for the proxy setup, you still couldn't browse the local boxes when the proxy was enabled. When we changed the proxy so that it would relay the request to the local boxes for us, it also wouldn't work.

What we found was that the second request that iTunes made via the proxy didn't have a hostname and so the proxy didn't know what to do with it.

I can't remember the exact details so possibly the site maintainer here can find the submission and add it here. In the end though, the solution was to turn the proxy off for the moment that you initially try and browse the music on the local box. Once you have the list of files you can turn the proxy back on as everything works after that point. It is best to create a new Itunes window just for the playlist on the other box because as soon as you click some other playlist in the main iTunes window, you will loose the list of files on the other box and you would need to turn off the proxy once again to get it back.



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