Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:47:20AM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 08:30, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > Dear Robert,
> >  
> > > The problem - I cannot access any web sites with http. Doesn't
> > matter if I use Konqueror, Mozilla or Lynx. Yet, all the Windows
> > machines on this network can browse the web (using Internet Explorer)
> > without difficulty.
> [...]
> > > Is it somehow possible that the Windows gateway only allows Internet
> > Explorer to work? Doesn't seem possible, but what do I know? All
> > suggestions welcome.
> > 
> > No a firewall doesn't know anything like that. It makes it choices based
> [...]
> 
> True... 
> 
> > known working client. The other option is that is a proxy server
> [...]
> 
> Ah! And here lies the crux of it. If you have Microsoft Proxy server
> installed with Proxy client on each of the machines, the Proxy client
> hooks into the IP stack of the client machine. I've never looked into it
> in any depth, but this may be what is causing your headaches.
> 
> The solution is either to set up the proxy server to proxy HTTP
> properly, install a different Proxy software on there (try Wingate), or
> alternatively, install FreeBSD and squid on there. :)

I think I can quess what you will advise. :D

-- 
Alex

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