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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:54:27
Message-Id: 20050803074946.GA13680@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Site-specific proxy by Willie Wong
1 nevermind that.
2
3 Figured out eventually that Automatically configure proxy via the PAC
4 files is what I wanted.
5
6 W
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8 On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:42:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
9 > Hi all,
10 > I am wondering if it is possible to make it such that when accessing
11 > certain webpages, the connections goes through a proxy, and when
12 > accessing others, the connections goes out directly to the internet.
13 >
14 > In particular, since I am a graduate student living off campus, if I
15 > need to use certain web services (for example, the Oxford English
16 > Dictionary Online, American Mathematics Society's MathSciNet, access
17 > to various scientific Journals), I have to go through the
18 > university's proxy server, as I don't have a personal license to use
19 > those services. The university proxy requires a login.
20 >
21 > I don't want to pass all connections through the proxy if I can help
22 > it, since it slows the connections down noticeably. So I am
23 > wondering if there's a way to implement it such that connection
24 > requests to certain websites will be sent through the university
25 > proxy server while the remainder of the connections are unaffected.
26 >
27 > Can this be done with some sort of squid-magic? Is there a way of
28 > doing it transparently?
29 >
30 > Thanks,
31 >
32 > Willie
33 > --
34 > It takes an uncommon mind to think of these things.
35 > --- Calvin
36 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 11:58
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41 Q: What's yellow and depends on the Axiom of Choice?
42 A: Zorn's Lemmon
43 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 15:12
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