Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 08:30 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Get a civilized proxy server (SQUID?).
I have squid running on my network, but I find it causes it's own
problems (see below). I'm on dial-up, so I liked the idea of having a
caching proxy so that I can quickly fetch the same stuff on different
terminals.
Multi-tab browsing with Firefox becomes unusable. The browser locks up
while waiting for one tab to finish getting what it's getting through
the proxy. You can't start something coming in, then read and browse
around what's in another tab.
That's nothing to do with Squid: at work I have a firewall rule that
forces all outgoing traffic to 80/tcp through squid. Firefox and Mozilla
and konquere and Safari are all fine with this.
The Windows boxes can't update AVG through it, they time out and fail
after the first part of the download.
Internet exploder must be configured to use the proxy. Everything else
just works.
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Cheers
John
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