system-wide proxy configuration

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:50:23PM -0400, Jay Camp wrote:
> You might be considering this, but I'll throw this out there anyway.
> You might want to look into using iptables to transparently forward the
> traffic to the proxy server.  This way all applications will instantly
> work since to them it will seem as if it is a direct network connection.

Aye, i considered that approach, but it has problems. Applications that 
use ftp can't be transparently proxied. Also, that approach fails in the
case where there are no proxies around, and direct net connection is
available.

Steve
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