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I know it's been ruled against in the past, but figuring out a way to
connect through various types of proxy-servers and protocols would totally
rule.
For example, for me, the only way I can connect to AIM from work is to use
their "officially brain-damaged" client (because it can connect using HTTPS
through our Proxy Server, blah...)
If it's possible to do this, individual accounts could be made
Location-Manager aware. For example, some sort of check-box list for each
account for the auto-connect feature, for example:
Auto-Connect at these locations:
[ ] Dialup - San Francisco
[ ] Dialup - West Los Angeles
[x] Home Network
[ ] Work
[x] WrxNet
This way, a user can assign Accounts "A" and "B" to auto-connect while at
Home or "WrxNet" (an example for another LAN), but not while at "Work".
Account "C" could be configured for the office FireWall/Proxy Server and its
Auto-Connect "profile" would be checked for "Work" only, since the proxy
settings wouldn't be valid in any other place
Just some thoughts! :)
rY.
PS: If Fire were to do something like this, it would be one of the FEW MacOS
X apps to really take advantage of the Location Manager.. So far *NO* web
browsers seem to FULLY support locations (for example, Explorer changes its
HTTP settings but *not* the HTTPS settings when you change locations.)
On 03-30-2002 12:15 AM, "Jason Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 06:04 PM, Ryan La Riviere wrote:
>> I'm curious how high up on the list getting Fire working better with
>> laptops
>> and changing locations after waking from sleep?
>>
>> I do this all the time and get messages from all the services (except
>> MSN
>> which thinks it is still connected) that they were having problems
>> connecting to the server.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I'm sure you'll be happy to hear that I finally joined the 21st century
> and picked up a combo drive iBook. So I guess getting Fire to better
> handle locations just jumped up on my priority list. :)
>
> What do you suggest we do to better handle this? Wait longer to
> autoconnect, or try to somehow determine before connecting if the server
> is accessible?
>
> -Jason
>
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