Chris Taylor wrote: > Each application needs to be made aware of the proxy. At present, I > believe I am correct in saying that *nix lacks a centralised method of > configuring the system for a proxy (squid in transparent mode with an
You can actually try setting the environment variable "http_proxy" (lower case) which should be recognised by many apps. However, if his proxy requires NTLM authentication then that is a capability that few programs will have. It's a proprietary and undocumented protocol, and is only supported via reverse engineering. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/